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Stem-cell hard sell: after Reagan's death, the campaign for embryo research grows even more dishonest.
NANCY REAGAN believes that increased government funding for embryonic stem-cell research could keep other families from going through the trauma of Alzheimer's disease. To her credit, she has never said that her husband would have favored such funding, or suggested that Republicans have an obligation to support it in memory of him.
Not all advocates of the funding have been so restrained. Two days after Reagan's death, William Safire was writing in the New York Times that increased funding would be the Gipper's last victory. Sen. Orrin Hatch--who pledged during his last Republican primary campaign to oppose embryo research, but then broke his promise--said, ...
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