To tell the truth, I have no idea how Ray felt about embryonic stem cell research. I mentioned yesterday that I'd attended the funeral of my uncle Ray. He died at 75 after spending nearly half his life suffering from Parkinson's disease. Like Michael J. Fox, Ray was diagnosed young -- he was 38. I knew Ray before the symptoms really set in -- he was a quiet man who liked deer hunting, cards, and a good joke. But I'll always remember him first as having an almost turtle-like slowness. If you told him something funny, you'd have to wait a few seconds before he smiled.
More truth-telling -- there's absolutely no way that embryonic stem cell research would've helped Ray. The advances wouldn't have come in his lifetime, but there's another patient out there, 38 years old, who's just been diagnosed and sees decades of life with Parkinson's stretching out ahead of them. That patient may be helped.
But the Bush administration puts politics above people's lives. We see it in a 'troop surge' in Iraq that no one believes will work and will only serve to extend the war until Bush is out of office. We see it in environmental rules that allow corporations to poison the environment. And we see it in denying federal funding for stem cell research...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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