[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 91 (Thursday, July 13, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1399]
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       PENCE CALLS ON CONGRESS TO STAND FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE

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                            HON. MIKE PENCE

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 13, 2006

  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, in the coming days, Congress will consider 
legislation to make taxpayer dollars available for what is known as 
embryonic stem cell research.
  Stating the case for an imminent presidential veto, in 2001 President 
Bush made the moral dimensions of scientific testing on human embryos 
clear.
  These are the principles: It is morally wrong to create human life to 
destroy it for research. Also, it is morally wrong to take the tax 
dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to finance 
research that they find morally objectionable. The choice of our time 
was described millennia ago: ``See, I set before you blessings and 
curses, life and death. Now choose life that you and your children may 
live.'' I urge my colleagues to stand for the sanctity of life at every 
level. Stand with President George W. Bush. Reject taxpayer funding of 
human embryo research.

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