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Patricia Heaton: Not Everyone Loves Michael J. Fox(Hollywood gossip mongers trash Patricia Heaton)
Fox News ^ | October 26, 2006 | Roger Friedman

Posted on 10/26/2006 8:17:16 AM PDT by Dane

Patricia Heaton — who won an Emmy for her work on "Everyone Loves Raymond" — is taking sides in the stem-cell research debate.

She’s put herself on the opposite side of Michael J. Fox, the much-beloved actor who’s been battling Parkinson’s disease since 1991 and is a firm supporter of embryonic stem-cell research.

Heaton is now appearing in a commercial intended to persuade Missouri voters to vote against Amendment 2 on their ballot.

Fox, in his own commercial, urges voters to support the measure and Democrat Claire McCaskill, who is running for U.S. Senate against the incumbent, Jim Tenant, a Republican who opposes embryonic stem-cell research.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; feministsforlife; hollyweird; hollywood; michaeljembryo; michaeljfox; patriciaheaton; rushlimbaugh; stemcells
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To: God luvs America

She was and still may be the National Spokeswoman for
Feminists For Life.


81 posted on 10/26/2006 10:37:07 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: toddlintown

"She actually had them reduced."

Have you seen early episodes of "Raymond"? I beg to differ.



82 posted on 10/26/2006 10:58:08 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: Dane

Michael J. Fox’s political ads for embryonic stem cells (ESC) follow fashionable trends of Hollywood ethics trumping medical ethics when attacking Republican Senatorial candidates for Missouri, Maryland and New Jersey. However, his stance harms tens of thousands who await follow-up stem cell studies pursuing life and health through the zero sum research funding game.



Instead of politicizing ESC, he should promote the next human study for Dr. Michel Levesque of the Cedar-Sinai Medical Center for already successful cures of Parkinson’s using adult stem cells (ASC). Researchers at University of Washington and in Canada also used ASC to stabilize severe MS cases and cured MS patients in earlier stages. Overall ASC has treated 72 human diseases and ESC zero, but follow-up studies must precede widespread use for many therapies.



Another funding orphan is umbilical cord stem cells (UCSC). Dr. Joanne Kurtsburg at Duke Medical Center needs research funds to understand human UCSC cures reversing ALD brain disease, leukemia, sickle cell anemia, and bubble-boy disease. Researchers in Denmark and Duke Medical Center need confirming studies for work transforming UCSC into brain, bone, cartilage, liver, and heart cells. Confirmation would render even this murky vision for ESC obsolete.



Supporting ESC research means supporting harvesting of embryos, and burnishing liberal pro-choice credentials through the liturgy of abortion. Opposition does not mean adopting a pro-life position, but instead contending against ESC hype for allocating scarce federal, state and private dollars to fund the most promising directions for stem cell medical research.


83 posted on 10/26/2006 11:40:31 AM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: ishabibble

What is the law regarding cloning and embryotic stem cell research in Canada? I believe MJF is Canadian, he could move his foundation up there and have the Canadian goverment fund the research.


84 posted on 10/26/2006 11:44:59 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: timsbella

I feel pity for poor Alex P. Keaton too. Isn't Alex a Canadian?


85 posted on 10/26/2006 11:47:28 AM PDT by subterfuge (Tolerance has become the greatest virtue, and hypocrisy the worst character defect.)
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To: jsmaineconservative

Not surprising

True beauty comes from the inside. And from what I'v seen of the raging democrats, they're so filled w/ hate, it doesn't take long for it to show on the outside

(Yes, Susan Saradon, I'm talking to you)


86 posted on 10/26/2006 12:01:41 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: timsbella

His mind is not afflicted.


87 posted on 10/26/2006 12:02:55 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Misplaced Texan

This is Roger Friedman, the same guy who thought that Farenheit 911 was the best movie of the year and said that conservatives could learn alot from it.


88 posted on 10/26/2006 12:33:00 PM PDT by SPRINK
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To: dfwgator


89 posted on 10/26/2006 12:51:55 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: subterfuge

Funny how that works...a Canadian actor playing a Republican is now living in the US supporting the Dems. G-d help the poor man.


90 posted on 10/26/2006 1:08:28 PM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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To: EagleUSA

Michael J. Fox is an ignorant lout who is being used as a human shield to advance the liberal/Democratic agenda. I think that aborted fetuses should be allowed to counter his commercials - but I forgot - they are dead.


91 posted on 10/26/2006 1:34:24 PM PDT by juliej
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis

Heaton is a staunch pro lifer and active member of Feministsforlife.


92 posted on 10/26/2006 1:35:59 PM PDT by juliej
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To: dfwgator

93 posted on 10/26/2006 1:44:33 PM PDT by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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To: SMM48

Oh, yes, and McCaskill will make him not shake any more! What garbage. Reminds me of when John Edwards said that he and John Kerry would "have invalids rise from their wheelchairs" if elected or some such nonsense. These libs sell snake oil.


94 posted on 10/26/2006 1:54:19 PM PDT by juliej
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To: carton253

Sorry - but Fox - a newly minted citizen - is out shilling for the Demos and using himself as a "human shield" because of his illness. How dare we criticize him - he is, after all, a walking saint.


95 posted on 10/26/2006 1:55:37 PM PDT by juliej
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To: teddyballgame

I read an article a couple of years ago when she had the breasts reduction surgery and had them "lifted," not augmented. She was complaining that her orbs were wrecking havoc on her back.

"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband."

And this: "So -- and I've had four boys in quick succession, and I have to do a lot of award shows and things like that, and so I had a tummy tuck and I had breasts lifted."

Patricia Heaton

The lifting is what gives the bigger appearance.


96 posted on 10/26/2006 1:58:25 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: TracyPA

Jennifer Aniston is a nasty Republican hating piece of work. No wonder Brad left her! (not that he is much better).


97 posted on 10/26/2006 1:58:57 PM PDT by juliej
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To: juliej

But her last beau Vince Vaughn is actually a Republican. No wonder that relationship didn't work out.


98 posted on 10/26/2006 2:00:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Vince is a Republican? I knew there was something about him I liked. Aniston is an unattractive woman both on the outside and the inside. She continues to make snide comments about Republicans and Pres. Bush.


99 posted on 10/26/2006 2:09:48 PM PDT by juliej
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis

I think you're right...she got up and walked out of some event because she found the language offensive...can't remember what it was...she essentially said that she had better things to do with her time than listen to some knucklehead's crude and unfunny rant.


100 posted on 10/26/2006 2:21:14 PM PDT by foreshadowed at waco
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