Kerry Urges Romney to Sign Stem-Cell Bill

[kerrygoddess]

Kerry Urges Romney to Sign Stem-Cell Bill
4 April 2005

John Kerry has been a staunch advocate for stem-cell research. It was an issue that he talked about frequently on the campaign trail. In today’s Boston Herald, Kerry urges Governor Mitt Romney to sign the MA stem-cell research bill.

Stem-Cell Research Is Pro-Life, By John Kerry

For everyone, the issue of stem-cell research is deeply personal and fundamentally moral. We each dread getting a call from a doctor with the results of a diagnosis that makes our heart sink, or the day we say goodbye to a loved one.

I'll never forget a woman I met last fall at a town hall meeting on stem-cell research. She stood up, her frail body shaking, and pleaded for her government to embrace stem-cell research. It was the moral clarity of her message that will stay with me forever.

“It's too late for me,” she said, “but we need to do this for those who still have hope.”

It's not too late for 13-year- old Garrett Burgess of Chelmsford, paralyzed at the age of 5, who traveled to all 50 states with his father to make the case for stem-cell research his doctors believe hold the promise that he can one day walk again.

In Massachusetts, we need to think of this moral challenge as Gov. Mitt Romney decides whether to sign or veto landmark legislation to allow research that holds out hope for millions. It's a question of our values as a state and a people, and these questions should never be answered lightly - but they must be answered.

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[rox63]

1. Mittens has promised to veto the bill

But it passed with a veto-proof vote. So it will be overridden, and will become law. Mittens will pander to the wingnuts, but we'll still get stem cell research.

[TayTay]

2. Mittens is going down

And I mean that in an unpleasant way. (Hmmm, Spring is definitely in the air.) He can kiss my hairy ass with all his stupid moron ideas of how to ruin the Commonwealth of Mass. (Bite me, you bastard.) How brain dead do you have to be to deny that a Brain-Mecca like Massachusetts needs to be able to do this research, ethically, in order to generate jobs. Honestly, why can't this idiot go annoy people in some other state, like New Hampshire? What ever did we do to deserve this trial by moron.

I truly, truly, truly hope that my esteemed junior and my esteemed senior Senators do something to f*ck this bastard over. Anything will do. He must go. He is a blight on the countryside of my fair Commonwealth and if he is ever elected President (gag,gag) I would hve to go around with a bag on my head for 4 years out of shame. (If certain other MA folk were elected Pres, I would be insufferably proud, of course.)

[whometense]

3. Mittens is in way over his head

with this stem cell business.

Did you see Eileen McNamara's column in the Sunday Globe? Whew. When she has the knife out for you, you are definitely toast.

Governor Mitt Romney better hope he is a viable candidate for president, because he is fast becoming a long shot for reelection in Massachusetts.

In his bid to market himself nationally as an unyielding social conservative, Romney has forgotten that he sold himself to Massachusetts as a political moderate. I think it is Attorney General Thomas Reilly's office that fields bait-and-switch complaints in the Commonwealth.

Heh.

I also like the smooth way Kerry has inserted the shiv between Mitt's ribs here, and is ever-so-gently twisting it. He richly deserves the pain.

[TayTay]

4. Oh, so do I

I am a big fan of political revenge. As long as it is done with a bit of class and the blood flecks don't show on the nice linens and such.

[BlueIris]

5. This is one of the best Kerry actions ever!

Everyone knows how much I love the good senator for his position on this one. Yes, in that way.