Does the end justify the means?

Micheal J. Fox (Parkinson's victim and former Canadian) has been under fire for making ads encouraging Amercian voters to elect Democratic senators and pass an embryonic stem-cell research bill. It is absolutely heart wrenching to see what this disease has done to him. You can click on the link to see the ad in its entirity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WB_PXjTBo (Thanks David for sending me this).

To make matters worse, Rush Limbaugh - a well-know, right-wing loudmouth - actually accuses Fox of faking or being off his medication (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102400691_pf.html). I can guarantee Fox is not faking, but so what if he did go off his medication for the sake of hammering home his point for the need for stem-cell research? The end justifies the means . . . for many people including Parkinson's patients, ebryonic stem-cell research is the last hope for a cure.

The benefit to Fox and all people suffering these delibitating illnesses is that he has brought this issue wide-open and will hopefully spur some very good and productive debate in the United States.

And with that said, I also encourage all parents that are expecting to consider donating their umbilical cord stem-cells to a public bank, such as the Alberta Cord Blood Bank (http://www.acbb.ca/) so it can be used to help people that may gave no other hope.