[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 103 (Monday, July 23, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H4380-H4381]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, as the debate over using Federal funds to 
support embryonic stem cell research goes forwards, I would urge my 
colleagues in this Chamber to consider the clear words of Pope John 
Paul II spoken to our President today, who said in Rome, ``Experience 
is already showing how a tragic coarsening of consciences accompanies 
the assault on innocent life in the womb, leading to the accommodation 
and acquiescence in the face of other related evils such as euthanasia, 
infanticide, and, most recently, proposals for the creation for 
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purposes of human embryos, destined to destruction in the process.''
  The Pope went on to say, ``A free and virtuous society which America 
aspires to be must reject practices that devalue and violate human life 
at any stage from conception until natural death.''
  May we in this Chamber, Madam Speaker, and our President heed the 
words of this gentle servant of God.

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