Friends,
Many of your heard that Mrs. Reagan favors Human Stem Cell Research but this was not the position of her husband. Read Michael’s response — very interesting.
Also, for more information on Bio-tech, read Cheryl Sullenger’s very informative book. Bio-Ethics in an Age Emerging Bio-Technology. ($7)
For the least of these,
Troy
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Michael Reagan,
June 21, 2004
I’m With My Dad on Stem Cell Research
Making Sense By Michael Reagan
The media continues to report that the Reagan “family” is in favor of stem cell research, when the truth is that two members of the family have been long time foes of this process of manufacturing human beings — my dad, Ronald Reagan during his lifetime, and I.
The media should keep in mind that we are also members of the Reagan “family,” and my father, as I do, opposed the creation of human embryos for the sole purpose of using their stem cells as possible medical cures.
Moreover, using the widely promoted and thoroughly discredited argument that stem cell research can lead to a cure of Alzheimer’s disease, the media and proponents of stem cell research have suggested that had the research been done a long time ago, my dad might have avoided the ordeal he endured. This is junk science at its worst.
As William Clark, dad’s national security advisor, interior secretary and one of my dad’s closest friends and aides wrote in a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times my father’s “suffering under Alzheimer’s disease was tragic, and we should do everything we can that is ethically proper to help others afflicted with it. But I have no doubt that he would have urged our nation to look to adult stem cell research — which has yielded many clinical successes — and away from the destruction of developing human lives, which has yielded none.” And he warned, “Those who would trade on Ronald Reagan’s legacy should first consider his own words.”
Here’s what my father said way back in 1983: “My administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.”
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June 10-13, 2004



