Frist: Stem-cell issue "too sensitive" so close to elections

As most have read, Ron Reagan will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention at the end of this month.

Mr Reagan, 46, told the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper that the Democratic Convention would give him an important platform to educate people about the issue.

"The conservative right has a rather simplistic way of characterising it as baby killing. We're not talking about fingers and toes and brains. This is a mass of a couple hundred undifferentiated cells," he said.

Reagan states unabashedly that he will not campaign either for Kerry or against Bush, but that he simply wants to educate the people on stem cell research.

Maybe he can mention this from Wired News:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday it is unlikely the Senate will vote this year to relax Bush administration rules on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, despite widespread support in the Senate.

Frist, a heart-lung transplant surgeon, did not express his own views on the topic but said stem-cell research was too sensitive a matter to confront so close to the November elections.

Ah yes, an issue that the Senate would approve and make the President look bad by doing so is "too sensitive" to confront before the election. But to push for a poorly worded amendment that does not have enough support to pass but even still will strengthen the base of the President, that's alright.