Nancy Reagan tackles Bush on stem cells

Gary Younge in New York
Friday May 7, 2004
The Guardian

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Nancy Reagan, the wife of the former president Ronald Reagan, is to make a public plea in favour of embryonic stem cell research in a growing bid to force the issue to the top of the agenda in a presidential election year.

Mrs Reagan will deliver a speech on the subject at a Beverley Hills fundraiser sponsored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation this weekend.

While Mrs Reagan, whose husband has Alzheimer's disease, has never publicly contradicted Republican presidents while in office, she has made known her views on the subject and her disappointment with the current administration's policy.

Her attempt to highlight the topic comes in a week when new research has supported the theory that stem cells from embryos have a greater potential to cure diabetes than stem cells from adults.
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More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,1211237,00.html

Would she still feel that way if Ronny was all healthy? Ummmm, I don't think so.