| If you read a newspaper, watch the evening news, or surf the web, there's a good chance that you've heard from one of the thousands of people that could personally benefit from embryonic stem cell research if Proposal 2 passes in Michigan. From the U.P. to the southeast corner, Michigan's media has been closely following and reporting on this issue. Channel 7 in Detroit has an excellent analysis on both sides of the issue and TV 6 in Marquette offers a very introspective piece. Whether it's living with Juvenile Diabetes like Ryan does, or a spinal cord injury like the one that Laura has, stuck with Multiple Sclerosis like Brenda is, a chronic heart condition like Kipp, or living with a chronic digestive disease like I do, it's amazing how a personal story can really cause people to think, and it's something that we're all hoping everyone does come November 4th. As a person who has Crohn's Disease, something for which there is currently no known cause or cure, I'm fighting like hell to make sure that Michigan voters are hearing from people like Ryan, Laura, and myself because this issue is so important. Not just to us, but to families, our friends, and if we can have them, our children. It's also important to the thousands more that will be diagnosed now and in the future with illnesses/injuries like ours, and cancer, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Parkinson's, blindness, and the list goes on and on. When the diagnosis is handed down, their lives will be shattered just as ours were. The difference for them after November 4th will be whether or not hope exists in the form of treatments and cures, something that for many of us is not available now, but something that Proposal 2 will. We all remember how bravely actor Christopher Reeve fought for this very issue after suffering from a spinal cord injury, or how hard Michael J. Fox has pressed the country after his diagnosis with Parkinson's. So from the thousands of Michigan residents whose lives are consumed with pain, illness and injury, all we ask is that you be our Superman or Superwoman on November 4th and vote Yes on Proposal 2 to Cure Michigan. |
