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Misleading the Disabled Community
The following excerpt if from a piece by James Kelly that was run in
the Detroit News 4/28/02. Mr. Kelly is a patient advocate with spinal cord
injury (SCI); he is paralyzed from the waist down and has been working with
researchers and foundations seeking a cure for SCI.
America's disabled and the public are being flagrantly misled concerning
the immediate and long-range therapeutic potential of cloning. I have no doubt
that [Christopher] Reeve wants to get out of his wheelchair as badly as I want
to walk away from mine, but regarding this issue he is sadly misinformed.
The tragedy is that valuable public and private research funds may end up
being diverted to basic embryonic stem cell and cloning research with little
clinical potential, to the detriment of proven and further developed avenues
that could help both of us during our lifetimes. If that happens, Reeve will
have more to answer for than the destruction of some embryos.
(Mr. Kelly’s entire op-ed can be found at
http://detnews.com/2002/editorial/0204/28/a17-476161.htm)
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