The Heathen Rage

Actor decries limitations on stem-cell research
MIAMI -- At a Miami Beach home crowded with people in wheelchairs sporting John Kerry buttons, Michael J. Fox - actor, Parkinson's disease patient and stem-cell-research activist - recently likened President Bush's limits on federal research funding to giving someone a car without gas. "But he's congratulating himself on giving us the car, so we sit there stuck," said Fox, who is stumping for Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential hopeful. "One doesn't have to be cynical to take a dim view of that and be frustrated by that." Bush placed strict limits on embryonic stem-cell research three years ago. He opposes the idea of "growing human beings for spare body parts, or creating life for our convenience." That position has become a campaign issue, and Fox has joined the debate.

"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us." Psalms 2:1-3

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WHAT YEAR WAS IT?
As president, Ronald Reagan banned federal funding for any biomedical research that used fetal tissue. What year was it when President G.W. Bush kicked open the door allowing human embryo research reversing Reagan's fetal tissue policy? It was August 9, 2001 -- (Read: Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research, The Bush Ranch Crawford, Texas)

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Posted by Editor at October 1, 2004 12:09 PM