Posted on 10/14/2004 3:01:41 AM PDT by naturalman1975
It's sad when folks have tragedies happen to them, but the argument saying baby humans have to die so that one can be cured contradicts basic moral and ethical principles in a way that is reminiscent of Dr. Mengele, where the purpose of the research trumped the humanity of his test subjects.
Amen! I judge a person by his/her regard for the well being of others.
According to Edwards if Kerry wins we're in for the fourth installment of the "Return of the Living Dead" starring Christopher Reeve. He's gonna get up and walk and Edwards will channel him so you can hear it straight from the horse's mouth.
Not only that but he'll vote Dem too.
Just more leftist selfishness.
Pretty good vest-pocket summary. My late first wife was a quad... if you really want to make a practical difference? Curb cuts. Power chairs. Better van lifts, better prosthetic devices. Incentives for businesses to hire the handicapped and keep them.
Research is important, and needs to be done, but I well recall talk almost 25 years ago of "the cure being just around the corner!" We actually went through a period of hope, all those years ago, that she might have a chance to stand up before her muscles so atrophied that it was impossible. Turns out the talk was just so much vaporware- a term not even known back then.
Kerry wants to be President because he just wants the title. Once he gets it he will do nothing but bicycle, windsurf and all the other stuff self absorbed idiots like him do. He is going to be the David Dinkins of the White House. When David Dinkins was Mayor of NYC he did only one of two things; 1. He played tennis or 2. He went on vacation. That`s all he ever did. Kerry is going to be the same way. Why? Look at his freggin` record as Senator! He does nothing! He accomplishes nothing! All he does is play with his toys, that`s all he does, that`s all he is interested in.
This twit gets elected we will be seeing scenes like major terror attacks or other crisis situations while he will be sking or windsurfing. That`s all you will ever see this guy do. He will just show up at the White House once in a while when he absolutely positively must be there, then he will be off skateboarding or vacationing in France. I will bet anything on that.
Bump !!!!!!
Reeve's had no problem sacrificing babies in the womb so that he might someday walk. That is not the act of a hero, it is the act of a scared coward.
It is no wonder that he and kerry got along so well.
It's actually worse than that-- they "want to believe it" and that is all they need-- actual performance is irrelevant.
There is a line from Seven King's "Gunslinger" series that has always stuck with me for some reason... after the usual perils, the two heroes run across a peasant, who tells them that once the rightful heir is restored, "All manner O' tings will be made well in the land again..."
That's what the Left is looking for- a secular Saviour to deliver them from the Great Darkness that is All Things Boosh.
His actual merits, positions, and performance matter not.
I just hope that this never comes to pass.
Reeves is but a footnote to a footnote.
There isn't much I wouldn't do to see my husband free of the debilitating pain he suffers from his spinal cord injury. But killing a baby is not on that list and never will be. If politicians want to do something concrete to help spinal cord injury victims how about reforming workmen's comp. so that they don't get victimized by the system as well as their injury?
There is no evidence that stem cells will be the cure-all that the liberals are claiming. They'll waste good research money on fetal stem cells just to try to make abortion seem like the most wonderful thing that came alone, babies will be conceived and harvested for their cells and organs.
Reeves also didn't get injured in any heroic way --- he was a rich man with a rich but dangerous hobby, he overestimated his abilities and was injured because of that but was not a hero. His money bought him the best health care and he figured it should buy him the harvested bodies of babies too. There are better men and women to call heros.
A movie star gets a terrible disease or has a horrible accident. They want to be cured so they get on the bandwagon for their PERSONAL cause. Something always bothers me about that. I can never quite put my finger on it.....
I was in a focus group on charities, and someone noted that Reeve was in no way active about finding a cure for paralysis until he himself needed help. I thought that was a good point.
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