Michael J. Fox

Kathy Shaidle - aka "relapsed catholic" writes about Fox' U.S. election ads on behalf of embryonic stem cell research in hopes of a Parkinson's cure:

I'm sorry a movie star has a disease, but that doesn't give him the right to sacrifice others in a quest for a cure. What if there was a chance that experimenting on, say, Parkinson's patients might lead to a cure of something else...? (Paging Dr. Mengele...)

Hmm. Well, first of all, yes, embryonic stem cell research is wrong. Always. Period. Full stop. However, the Dr Mengele reference? Groan.