[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14269]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                        ALLOWING HANNAH TO LIVE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, right now the White House is trying to decide 
whether or not to allow scientists to kill living human embryos to 
harvest their stem cells. The debate, of course, is over whether or not 
living human embryos are people or property. If they are property, you 
can do anything you want with them. If they are people, they deserve 
protection.
  Take a look at this chart of the life of Hannah, a 2\1/2\-year-old 
girl who was adopted as a frozen embryo. Here shortly after she was 
conceived; here when she was adopted and then implanted into her 
mother's, adoptive mother's womb; here on New Year's Eve, 1998, when 
she was born; and over here on the right you can see when she was a 
toddler, a baby.

                              {time}  1015

  Where on this chart did Hannah become a person? Where on this chart 
does she deserve protection?
  Many of us believe that she deserves the right to protection, that 
she deserves to continue to live from the start. We hope the White 
House will make sure that all unborn girls and boys have the same 
chance to live and grow.

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