Word: stemming
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That argument was one of many paralleling the abortion debate; without government regulation, pro-choice advocates say, women will be butchered in back alleys. But Bush's decision is complicated by the many well-credentialed foes of abortion who have come out in favor of embryonic stem-cell research. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that Nancy Reagan, wife of the conservative movement's central icon, has sent word to the White House that she backs the research. According to those familiar with the meetings, former Reagan aides Kenneth Duberstein and Michael Deaver delivered this message to House Speaker...
...research side already had strong emotional appeals from former Republican Senator Connie Mack, a cancer survivor, as well as G.O.P. Senators Gordon Smith and Strom Thurmond, who have relatives with diseases they believe might be cured if stem-cell research goes forward. Raising the emotional stakes, Smith went on CNN last week and challenged opponents of stem-cell research. "I ask them to go with me to the hospital and visit some of my relatives who are dying of Parkinson's and withhold that care and hope." All three men have long records opposing abortion. These are the kinds...
...brilliant coalition in Congress in favor of the research. Working with Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research, Soler organized 38 national patient groups into his coalition. Soler and Perry routinely corner politicians with polls showing that majorities of Catholics and other churchgoers favor embryonic stem-cell research. They have mobilized patients and their families to press their members of Congress, and some believe that they have enough votes to override a veto on a potential research bill...
...polls don't tell politicians who will show up to defend them on Election Day--and that issue is at the core of the White House's political calculation on stem cells. The White House looks at the poll numbers and is concerned about a possible backlash from fundamentalist Catholics and Evangelicals, the shock troops who vote, especially in midterm elections. Bush's G.O.P. can't have them sitting at home in protest if it is to hold the House and win back the Senate...
...politics of the other side is just as troublesome. Swing-vote suburban women heavily support stem-cell research. The public faces of the diseases that may benefit from the research are a p.r. dream. To name just three: Michael J. Fox, Mary Tyler Moore and Christopher Reeve...