[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 70 (Tuesday, May 24, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3775]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 URGING MEMBERS TO SUPPORT FEDERAL FUNDING OF STEM CELL AND CORD BLOOD 
                                RESEARCH

  (Mr. COOPER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, if Members are interested in finding a cure 
for Parkinson's disease, diabetes, cancer, and many other of the dread 
diseases that we face, please vote for this stem cell bill today and 
please vote for the cord blood bill today. They need to vote for both.
  The narrow issue may seem whether we expand federally funded research 
into embryonic stem cell work, but I think a better way to view the 
issue is whether we allow the continual discarding of embryos from IVF 
clinics or whether we allow those to be used for productive and life-
giving research. This is a very important moment for this House. I 
would urge all of my colleagues to do the right thing for the future of 
our kids and grandkids because this research needs to be conducted. It 
needs to be conducted with Federal support. It needs to be conducted 
here in America.
  There was a break-through just last week in South Korea. Are we going 
to send our loved ones overseas in order to get this lifesaving 
research? We should do it here.

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