[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H3871-H3872]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH DESTROYS LIFE

  (Mr. DeLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of stem cell research, 
research that is ethical and which has been proven effective. The stem 
cell research I am referring to is derived from

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adults, umbilical cord blood, and placental blood, to name just a few 
sources. I, however, am not talking about stem cell research extracted 
from human embryos.
  We can and are saving lives with stem cells gathered from adults even 
more effectively than the stem cell research from embryos that some of 
my colleagues favor. We would think that this would be enough to 
convince folks where they should be on this important issue.
  In case it is not, the fact that living human embryos would be 
deliberately destroyed in order to obtain their stem cells to me is 
absolutely appalling. Once we begin justifying the killing of human 
beings at one stage of development, we invite other troubling 
applications.
  Stem cell research from human embryos establishes a bad precedent and 
is ethically wrong. Human life is too valuable. Let us condemn the 
logic of faulty research that extinguishes one life on the pretext of 
extending others. Instead, we should support the promising research 
methods that will save lives without ending others.

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