Christopher Reeve swore he'd walk again by his 50th birthday, which is next week. But even though he's had a remarkable recovery from his spinal injury, he's not even close to walking. The former Superman blames the President and the Church for undermining stem-cell research.
"If we'd had full government support, full government funding for aggressive research using embryonic stem cells from the moment they were first isolated, at the University of Wisconsin in the winter of 1998 — I don't think it unreasonable to speculate that we might be in human trials by now…"
"I think we could have been much further along with scientific research than we actually are," he said.
The actor said President Bush had paid too much heed to the Catholic church.
"There are religious groups — the Jehovah's Witness, I believe — who think it's a sin to have a blood transfusion. Well, what if the president for some reason decided to listen to them, instead of to the Catholics, which is the group he really listens to in making his decisions about embryonic stem cell research?" Reeve was quoted as saying.
