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Joining fellow disability advocates, ethicists, researchers, theologians and legislators, Tada said she stands with "countless Americans with disabilities who believe that our cause is not advanced when human life is sacrificed in hopes of finding a cure."

Perfect!

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Disability Rights Advocate Backs Bush Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill Veto (Joni Eareckson Tada)

Joni Eareckson Tada is an amazing woman and her comments here are wonderful.

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[firewalk]

"People like me -- who are medically fragile -- are left vulnerable and exposed in a society that views human life as a commodity which can be experimented upon or exploited," she explained.

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[turnrightnow]

[Fox blasted Bush's veto claiming it went against public opinion, even though polls show a plurality of Americans oppose tax-funding of embryonic stem cell research.

"I am respectful of those who oppose this research and their reasoning for it but they do represent a minority," he added]
So a plurality of Americans equals a minority?

["I find it frustrating that the president would use his first veto of his time in office to thwart this research," Fox said.]
They ignore that after Clinton dodged this issue altogether Bush was first to authorize research with lines of non-viable embryonic cells. He vetoed expansion of research on viable lines with federal funds.

[lilylangtree]

Wonderful. Adult stem cells can do the job but people conveniently ignore that fact.

[devane617]

BS Joni...You DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE DISABLED COMMUNITY!!! I am part of that community, and overwhelmingly we are upset the President vetoed the bill. This is just plain BS. Go to newmobility.com forum for a view of how the disabled community feels.

[tutstar]

ping...

[John Lenin]

Sooner or later the government will decide which people will live or die based on their disability.

[Coleus]

God Bless her.

[jwalsh07]

"People like me -- who are medically fragile -- are left vulnerable and exposed in a society that views human life as a commodity which can be experimented upon or exploited," she explained.

Amen to that.

[SuziQ]

"I find it frustrating that the president would use his first veto of his time in office to thwart this research," Fox said.

Just shows how emotion can cloud the facts. The President didn't say that research couldn't be done, he just vetoed FEDERAL FUNDING for it. Private researchers are free to pursue this work on their own dime, or on those of whom think the research might actually become profitable.

[mombonn]

Bless you, Joni! You'll have all of eternity to dance!

[mombonn]

How beautiful she is after all those years in a wheel chair.

She is an inspiration.