John Kerry Wants Taxpayers to Fund Research That Destroys Lives
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 13, 2004
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Continuing to violate the pro-life legacy of Ronald Reagan that millions celebrated last week, likely Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry cited the death of the former president in challenging President Bush to lift restrictions on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Saying that it could lead to cures for patients suffering from Alzheimer's as Reagan did, Kerry said researchers can only find a cure "if only they are allowed to look."
Ethical questions regarding the research, which destroys the lives of unborn children to obtain their stem cells, can be resolved with "good will and good sense," Kerry said in a radio address.
Kerry said Nancy Reagan "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."
However, two leading researchers on Friday, including a Johns Hopkins University scientist...
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