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Impish:
Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter provides a beautiful defense to the ad, and the page includes a video of the ad in question.  Check it out here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15413680/site/newsweek/

Kelda:
oooh! thanks - I've beeen reading the reports on this on the BBC news website with interest and will be interested to see the advert when I get home and can open..

Personally I agree with stem cell research for the use in fighting diseases like this. Cloning - I don't agree with but I feel it will make a large difference to people's lives if this could be used for research.

I have an eldery relative with Parkinsons and she has just been moved into a care home. Her husband has looked after her for years but he just can't cope anymore. Its heartbreaking that he's had to move in with his daughter and doesn't want to see his wife very often becasue he's just come to the end of his tether.  He loves her but he's in his late 80's and is beginning to hate her. That's not a situation I want to ever be in.

2robots4u:
Impish..thanks for the link.  I was able to read the review, but the ad would not load.  However, I did see part of it on the news yesterday, along with that idiot Limbaugh's comments.  He is the most insensitive person I have ever seen, and he should be publicly sensured for this outrageous attach on Michael J. Fox.  I have a friend in advanced stage of Parkinsons, and believe me, Mr. Fox was not acting.  Stem cell research is an important issue, not only for this disease, but for many others as well.  Those who are against stem cell research need to understand what it can do for medical science, and that it in no way "kills babies".  There is so much we could accomplish for the human race if there was acceptance for stem cell research, umbilical cord blood research, and much more.  No one seems to be critical of a human cadaver being disected for medical research, so why is it so wrong to use aborted and still-born fetuses?  I strongly support any medical research whose outcome is to benefit the human race........and we are not playing God as the bodies are already dead, and their essence, spirit, soul, whatever you wish to call it, has departed that vessel for other planes of existence.   

saucycobblers:
What an excellent and well considered piece of journalism, and I agree with every word of it. If
Limbaugh himself enjoys good health he would do well to think before he starts shooting his mouth off (I'm from the UK and know diddly-squat about him, so I don't know if this is the case). From a personal perspective, I've had Type 1 diabetes since I was a teenager and have encountered much ignorance, prejudice and downright insensitivity as a result. It's a tough condition to live with - injecting myself 4-6 times a day in my stomach is the easy bit, believe me. Do I want rid of it, and would I be prepared to do almost anything to be rid of it? You bet your ass I would.

2robots4u:
Hi saucycobblers...I have Type 2 diabetes and inject 2 times daily, and I completely understand what you go through.  I am very outspoken when it comes to unintelligent and insensitive remarks about diabetes and any other medical condition.  We do not have control of the cards we were dealt in life, and we have to live with it, as does Mr. Fox and my friend, and the other millions who have some sort of medical condition. 

Rush Limbaugh is a radio talk show host whose most recent piece of public exposure was illegal use of prescription drugs obtained illegally.  He is a complete idiot (I can't use the language I would like to in this site), and unfortunately, he is not the only one in that category.  The best we can do is just ignore him, until he does something really stupid like verbally attacking Mr. Fox.  It just makes me furious....

Doug
 

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