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Edwards statement: Edwards said, "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do, when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
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Ironic is the word that came to mind but may not have been the best choice.
He implies the President's policy is holding back the progress of research and that Kerry's plan will turn it around. Cures needed require more than the federal support of human embryonic stem cell lines, they demand time and funding. It also ignores the contribution being made by private research and funding. Pharmaceuticals contribute more worldwide R/D funding than any other sector. If Kerry has his way with the pharmaceutical profits, it will cut into the biggest contributors into R/D innovation and funding... and I find that ironic.