Bush snubs AIDS sufferers
Bush “cancer cure” amounts to AIDS death sentence, say medical activists and watchdog groups.
Medical activists have condemned what they call President George Bush’s “blatant disregard” for AIDS sufferers, following the President’s recently announced cancer medicament.
Bush’s cancer pronouncement reflects “a callous refusal to assist AIDS patients”, who tend not to support the Republican administration, said medical activist John Coal.
More than five million cancer deaths in the United States are white males, according to the government’s own statistics.
“Bush has condemned AIDS patients to death in favor of white men,” said Coal.
The President has refused to discuss the medicament with the press. According to watchdog groups such as Medical Matters for America, this is because the President engaged in inappropriate personal research to manufacture the cure. The groups claim that the President unethically entertained major medical researchers inside the White House, and personally conspired with them to develop his cure for cancer.
Constitutional experts say that the President has over-reached his authority.
“Medical research is not one of the constitutionally delegated powers of the president,” according to a statement Professor Jamie Hussein has provided to the Associated Press.
The president will compound the problem if he follows through with his threat to distribute the cure free to cancer patients. “The president is unconstitutionally infringing on cancer patient rights,” said Coal. “While cancer can be brutal, cancer patients have their medical therapy, they can stay in bed, their kids can look forward to a peaceful resolution.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the Bush cure “unfair and undemocratic”. The Democratic stalwart lambasted Bush’s decision to subsidize white male diseases. Reid made it clear that he was willing to use the nuclear option to offset the disparity between AIDS and cancer sufferers following Bush’s “indiscriminate cure”.
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