NYT,Wilgoren:Kerry Vows to Lift Bush Stem-Cell Research Limits

[DeepModem Mom]

THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR
Kerry Vows to Lift Bush Limits on Stem-Cell Research
By JODI WILGOREN

Published: June 22, 2004


DENVER, June 21 - Backed by the unusual endorsement of 48 Nobel laureates, Senator John Kerry on Monday accused the Bush administration of letting ideology trump science, and promised to lift the limits on federal financing of stem-cell research and to build an economy "based on innovation, ingenuity and imagination."

Mr. Kerry and his scientific supporters echoed a 38-page report issued in February by the Union of Concerned Scientists, which accused the administration of "manipulation, suppression and misrepresentation of science" on issues like biotechnology, global warming and nuclear power.

Mr. Kerry vowed to "listen to the advice of scientists" and make their advisory reports open to the public. The group of scientists had complained that the White House heavily edited a report by the Environmental Protection Agency to remove almost any finding pointing to a human link to global warming.

Mr. Kerry also invoked the recent death of President Ronald Reagan from Alzheimer's disease and echoed Nancy Reagan's call for stem-cell research "to TEAR DOWN EVERY WALL THAT KEEPS US FROM FINDING THE CURES OF TOMORROW."...


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/politics/campaign/22kerry.html

[Voltaire99]

1. Kerry should get Nancy to appear in an ad with him.

Then he should ask Tom Delay to be his running mate!

Heh heh: just kidding. Good on Kerry for taking a sensible position on this issue.