An Open Letter To Barrett Supporter Heidi Fallone: I'm Sorry Your Son Andrew Has Had Juvenile Diabetes These Past 11 Years. Our Son Ryan Has Had A Severe Brain Injury For Almost 20 Years Now. And I'm Voting For Scott Walker.

Hello Heidi,

I saw you on TV tonight. After you get done being less than truthful to the camera ("Scott Walker says he would ban stem cell research in Wisconsin. That's right, ban it.") you ask "But how can you be against hope?" Indeed. How can one be against Hope?

As a big fan of Hope myself I am assuming, and hoping, that your son Andrew can walk, and talk, and play, and dress himself, and go to the bathroom on his own. If so, that's more than our son Ryan has been able to do since his brain injury in 1991. Here's a picture of him I took and touched up six years ago:

It's kinda funny when you think about it, isn't it? I mean, that you're the one who seems to be without Hope. If there were some Miracle Cure that meant Ryan could walk and talk and play again but the side effect would be that he would have Juvenile Diabetes for the rest of his life, don't you think I'd snap up that bargain in an instant? Of course I would, and I'd never look back.

So what happened to your Hope? May I gently suggest that when The Truth became a casualty of The Lie For The Greater Good, that your Hope was wounded as well. Progress is not to be made by lying to ourselves or to the television camera. We know this in our Heart of Hearts. But we all need to be reminded of this sometimes.

Which leads me to why I'm voting for Scott Walker for Governor of Wisconsin. He's a rather straightforward fellow who says what he thinks and then goes about doing his job the best he can. Someone who does what he says he's going to do, to the best of his ability. Someone who can get Wisconsin back on track. And someone who doesn't run sleazy campaign ads, like the one you just appeared in.

Best Regards,

Tom McMahon

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[Roland Melnick]

"...once government takes over our health care system, promising research will shut down and new or experimental treatments will be denied because they are too costly."

Or political considerations will rule the decision making process as to what research gets funding support and which research does not.

"My son has expressed dismay that proponents assume that he would want another to die so that he does not have to do insulin shots - where is the humanity in that?"

Pat, I admire your son's attitude.

[Deb]

God bless you and your family Tom.

As a mother, I’d rather stick a needle in my own eye than in my child’s arm, but like you and your wife, I know parents who would give anything for a shot that would stop their child’s brain damaging, life threatening seizures from occurring several times a week.

They aren't complaining or giving up hope. They're out raising money for research.

I wish people like Heidi Fallone would realize that once government takes over our health care system, promising research will shut down and new or experimental treatments will be denied because they are too costly.

[Pat]

I too have a son with juvenile onset (1st grade) Type I diabetes who is now a senior in college. Medical advances without killing unborn children has been remarkable in my son's lifetime. My son has expressed dismay that proponents assume that he would want another to die so that he does not have to do insulin shots - where is the humanity in that?

[Tom Barnes]

John, I suggest you look a little into embryonic research before you make an assumption. It's been proved in multiple studies the stem cells obtained from cord blood are as valuable if not more valuable then the stem cells obtained by execution of a baby, and before you make another blanket statement, I have had to make this decision, and lucky for us, the cord blood saved from a previous pregnancy was the solution, not the sacred embryonic cells.

[John Foust]

I guess the real question is, if the treatment for your son or anyone's son involved research that ever gained something from embryo-based stem cell research, would you reject it?

[Chrisfromracine]

Well said, my friend. Well said. God bless.