Reply #34: I was NOT sympathetic when Reagan died.

[IdaBriggs]

Still not. Believe he got EXACTLY what he deserved. I hope it was painful and it caused his family a lot of hardship. I * HATE * that S.O.B. Of course, I have a personal reason for it --

He stopped infertility research. Said he didn't think people should "play God", and so we lost eight years of research. Bush Sr continued on with that theme, so we lost another four. God Bless Clinton -- one of the first things he did was lift the ban on it. That meant infertility treatments that cost $40K when Clinton got into office dropped down to about $18K when my husband and I tried the first time six years ago. Earlier this year it had dropped down to about $8K total. So far we've spent over $30K (God, that looks bad when I type it), and miscarried three times. When I think of the TWELVE YEARS of research we lost because that SOB put HIS religion ahead of MY medicine, and I look at the empty rooms where my non-existent children don't sleep, I pray God he is rotting in hell.

Don't even get me started on how the infertility research stuff led to the current hope for stem cell research; I buried a sister with MS earlier this year, a great-aunt with Alzheimer's less than a month ago, and my favorite aunt who was on kidney dialysis a week and a half ago.

Sorry for the vent. I just spent a day admiring other people's babies, and I'm feeling a little ... overly sensitive at the moment. :(