LANGHORNE, Pa. - First lady Laura Bush defended her husband's policy on embryonic stem cell research Monday, calling Democratic rival John Kerry's criticism "ridiculous" and accusing proponents of overstating the potential for medical breakthroughs.
"We don't even know that stem cell research will provide cures for anything — much less that it's very close" to yielding major advances, Bush said.
The first lady weighed in on the highly charged political and scientific issue on the third anniversary of Bush's decision to limit federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to only the 78 stem cell lines in existence Aug. 9, 2001.
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So, since we don't know if it will provide cures, then cancel the research? Wha????
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