[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 95 (Wednesday, July 19, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H5385]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       VETO HUMAN EMBRYO 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, President Ronald Reagan famously said, ``We 
cannot diminish the value of one category of human life, the unborn, 
without diminishing the value of all human life.''
  Yesterday the United States Senate passed a bill that authorizes the 
use of Federal tax dollars to fund the destruction of human embryos for 
scientific research.
  While supporters of the bill argue this debate is a battle between 
science and ideology, that really misses the point.
  If the Castle-DeGette bill returns to the Congress tonight, we will 
simply decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of 
millions of prolife Americans and use them to fund the destruction of 
human embryos for research.
  You see, I believe that life begins at conception; that a human 
embryo is human life. I believe it is morally wrong to create human 
life to destroy it for research, and I believe it is morally wrong to 
take the tax dollars of millions of prolife Americans who believe that 
life is sacred and use it to fund the destruction of human embryos for 
research.
  This debate then tonight will not be about what an embryo is. It will 
be about who we are as a Nation and whether we respect fully half of 
our country. On behalf of those millions of prolife Americans, Mr. 
President, veto this bill.

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