To counter the ads showing unmedicated Parkinson's sufferer Michael J. Fox urging votes in favor of unrestricted embryonic stem cell research, pro-lifers have brought in Jim Caviezel...and Jim Suppan.
One of the Fox ads is running here in MD, incidentally, and I can't say I found it offensive, except in the sense that I find what he's advocating offensive (others must die and your taxes should finance it so I can find relief --and is Fox even a citizen? I'd like to know). People have been describing the video as if it were painful to watch because he's flailing uncontrollably on screen. Maybe a more dramatic version is running in MO (video takes too long to load on this dinosaur, so I won't investigate), but I didn't find him painful to watch --and don't think anyone would who'd ever seen a Parkinson's patient before.
I doubt the ad will be persuasive --it's more like a Rorschach test. If you're of the pro-life cast of mind, you'll see a person with an affliction, but the personhood will stand out; if you have the opposite cast of mind, the disease stands out. And by those very tokens you'll vote to protect or experiment on embryos accordingly.
Meanwhile, in MO, Support for Amendment 2, which will permit human cloning, has fallen dramatically in the past two weeks. Curtsy: Secondhand Smoke.
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