Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Stem cells
It will doubtless be replied that those who do not rush to affirm this grotesque exploitation of President Reagan's death in wholesale betrayal of a truth he held dear are "heartless" and that if we only knew what he and his family had endured for the past ten years we would not be so critical. As a matter of fact, I do know what the Reagans have endured. I do not speak as somebody disengaged from the tragedy of Alzheimer's Disease. My mother-in-law is in the final stages of Alzheimer's. We also have had to watch her go far away to a place where we can no longer reach her. We've also had to struggle with the terrible suffering Dad has endured in the struggle to care for "Mamma Bear." We're acutely aware of what a hardship it is for both victim and family alike. But, as Reagan taught us, when the voice of Moloch whispers "Sacrifice your children and for you it will be well" then that voice must be resisted. And nobody would say that more vigorously than my lioness of a mother-in-law — were she still able to speak. Except, of course, Ronald Reagan.
