MediaMatters takes on Charles Krauthammer over distortions
Sunday, January 14, 2007 -    reddit
What Krauthammer said (via mediamatters.org):
In his January 12 Washington Post column, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer again distorted former Sen. John Edwards' (D-NC) 2004 comments on stem cell research, claiming that Edwards "starkly and egregiously" claimed that if Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) were elected president in 2004, "Christopher Reeve will walk again."
What John Edwards actually said:
Christopher Reeve just passed away. And America just lost a great champion for this cause. Somebody who is a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him, who have gone through the tragedy. Well, if we can do the work that we can do in this country -- the work we will do when John Kerry is president -- people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
Krauthammer was also caught in the past of supporting the exact thing that H.R. 3 proposes to do: limit stem cell lines to those that would otherwise be disguarded and destroyed from fertility clinics. It doesn't matter if you think destroying these things is equivalent to killing a human being, because they are going to be destroyed no matter what. We can either take them and use them for the benefit of medicine, or lose them anyway. I choose to use them, as does John Edwards. How about you?
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tags: John Edwards, Stem Cells, Washington Post, Media Matters, H.R. 3, Democrats, Medicine, Science
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