Christopher Reeve's Children Take Up His Cause

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/AP: Reeve's Children Take Up His Cause
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 1, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Christopher Reeve's children are carrying on their dad's crusade: finding a cure for paralysis. Alexandra and Matthew Reeve both serve on the board of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which Reeve established to fund research for therapies and a cure, People magazine reports in its Nov. 13 issue.

''Our dad's accident really did connect us to this community: 4 million people in the U.S. who are suffering from paralysis,'' Alexandra Reeve tells the magazine. ''We understand how important it is not only to find a cure but also to improve quality of life.''

She and brother Matthew will join their stepbrother, Will Reeve, 14, at the foundation's annual gala on Nov. 6 in New York.

Christopher Reeve was paralyzed in 1995 in a horse-riding accident. He died in 2004 at age 52. His wife, Dana Reeve, died of lung cancer earlier this year....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-People-Reeve.html

[Erika]

1. Rush, Bush, Snow, Coulter are going to attack & hit them hard

for politically using their father's death. Good for the kids. They are fighters for a cause. Their mom and dad would be proud.

[Erika]

2. It's fascinating that the right wing has said if you are a victim

of a disease or tragedy that you must just shut up about it or be seen as someone using the victim status.

That thought is totally fascinating. According to that line of thinking every holocaust victim should have suffered in silence without another word said. These right wing wackos are something else.

I hope the right wing nutjobs will at least leave these kids alone.