Kerry on Radio Pushes Stem Cell Research

[AmyStrange]

Kerry on Radio Pushes Stem Cell Research
By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer

FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040612/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_stem_cell&cid=536&ncid=536
WASHINGTON - John Kerry (news - web sites) challenged the Bush administration Saturday to relax restrictions on stem cell research to pursue the potential of finding cures for conditions such as Alzheimer's.

Ethical questions raised by the use of human embryos can be resolved through "good will and good sense," he said.

Kerry, the Democrats' presumed candidate to face President Bush (news - web sites) in November, cited Nancy Reagan's efforts to help find a cure for Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites), which debilitated her husband, former President Reagan, for at least a decade before his death last weekend.

"She told the world that Alzheimer's had taken her own husband to a distant place, and then she stood up to help find a breakthrough that someday will spare other husbands, wives, children and parents from the same kind of heartache," Kerry said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.

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1. A fantasy

I have a fantasy that Nancy Reagan, already pissed at W for refusing to release any more embryonic stem cells, will implode over that condescending interview Laura Bush gave a few days ago saying, yes, Nancy's a great person but, no, there won't be anymore stem cells allowed.
It will alienate Nancy so much that she'll meet with Kerry, then appear at the Democratic National Convention to give a speech about stem cells, blast Bush for refusing them and then throw her full support to Kerry for President.
Ah, it's just a dream.