Contact: Day Gardner, National Pro-Life Action Center, 202-834-0844

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- Michael J. Fox and other celebrities are going head to head in a debate about stem cell research that destroys a human embryo. In a statement released this morning Dr. Paul Schenck, Executive Director of National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill had this to say:

"Much has been made of Rush Limbaugh's apology for suggesting that Michael J. Fox exaggerated his Parkinson's symptoms for a political purpose. But the real issue is not what a talk show host may or may not have said about Fox's disease. Rather, it is Fox's proposal that is truly shocking: he suggests, no demands, that tax payers subsidize, under penalty of law, dubious research which results in the deaths of human embryo-children, so that his symptoms might be relieved. That is an outrageous demand - and that is what should spark debate, not what one celebrity thinks about another."