![]() The injury paralyzed him from the shoulders down, and he used a wheelchair and ventilator for the rest of his life. On May 27, 1995, Reeve broke his neck when he was thrown from a horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Virginia. He later appeared in critically successful films such as The Bostonians (1984), Street Smart (1987), and The Remains of the Day (1993), and in the plays Fifth of July on Broadway and The Aspern Papers in London's West End. After his acclaimed performances in Superman and Superman II, Reeve declined many roles in action movies, choosing instead to work in small films and plays with more complex characters. He studied at Cornell University and the Juilliard School and made his Broadway debut in 1976. ![]() Ferdinand Schureman Schenck (great-great-great-great-grandfather)Ĭhristopher D'Olier Reeve (Septem– October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, author, and activist, best known for playing the title character in the film Superman (1978) and three sequels.īorn in New York City and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Reeve discovered a passion for acting and the theater at the age of nine.Mary Schenck Woolman (great-great-grandaunt). ![]() In fact, these are specks smaller than a grain of sand in which we can derive stem cells that could have vast scientific and medical benefit. There's no pregnancy and yet the opponents of this research continue to cast this in terms of these are little tiny lives. This is the matter of taking the nucleus from a skin cell, putting it in a hollowed-out egg cell in a dish and growing it to the point where you can take stem cells out of it. necessary in order to get the full value out of embryonic stem cells. Nuclear transfer technology, which allows you to create stem cells that are genetically identical to a particular patient, may be. Joseph Martin, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard As in other areas of creative endeavor in science, the answers will come only with careful experimentation. It is going to take years of serious research to get there, but as a neurologist, I believe the prospect of a "penicillin" for Parkinson's is a potential breakthrough that we must pursue. Stem cell therapies have the potential to do for chronic diseases what antibiotics did for infectious diseases. "Destroying an embryo is equivalent to abortion… Excommunication is valid for the women, the doctors and researchers who destroy embryos.Ĭardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family George Wolff, The Biotech Investor's Bible Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. And that in recognition of that, we are going to hold ourselves accountable in terms of how we interact with, engage or destroy the embryo.įrancoise Baylis, ethicist, Dalhousie University there is something special about the embryo and most people tie that specialness to the potentiality of it becoming a person, because it already is a human being. It (the embryo) is a human being biologically. Roger Gosden, research scientist, Royal Victoria Hospital For instance, if you got embryos that are going to waste, the patient no longer wants and is prepared to donate them, rather than just destroying them, it is better to try to use them for some good for a patient, to convert them into embryo stem cells to treat some dread disease. It seems to me it’s better to do some good than no good. Suzanne Scorsone, former Royal Commissioner on Reproductive Technologies We cannot do things that are inherently evil to bring about a ’s making objects out of entities that are human. sufferer Allison Steeves writing in the National Post (2002) That’s the kind of miracle I pray for every day. Imagine that instead of all these drugs, my body could heal my damaged nerves like it was healing a blister. Bush announcing stem cell funding decision (2001) One goes with a heavy heart if we use these, he said, because we are dealing with the seeds of the next generation. Senator Bill Frist, speech (2005)Īn ethicist.told me that cluster of cells is the same way you and I, and all the rest of us, started our lives. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.įormer U.S. I believe human life begins at conception. Tom Delay writing in the Washington Post (2005) The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings. Embryonic stem cells.are in effect, a human self repair kit.Īctivist Christopher Reeve speaking on CNN’s Larry King Live
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