[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 95 (Wednesday, July 19, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H5386]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    EMBRYONIC STEM CELL LEGISLATION

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, scientific discovery should never 
compromise our moral integrity. Embryonic stem cell research, which 
they call hope, which some call hope, destroys human life.
  What they do, in essence, is they create a new human life. They 
fertilize an embryo, the essence of life. Then they take that embryo 
and destroy it, the essence of human life. It is a destructive concept 
for our society. And government has no business funding research that 
creates life in order to destroy it. And at its essence, that is what 
embryonic stem cell research does. It is not progress. It is a 
breakdown in medical ethics, and government should not support it or 
endorse it.
  Additionally, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single 
medical treatment, whereas ethical adult stem cell research has 
produced 27, at least, disease and condition recoveries for cerebral 
palsy and spinal cord injuries.
  We need to actually encourage human life, not destroy it. And I urge 
the President to veto this unethical research.

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