[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12964]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



THE LAW AND ETHICAL STANDARDS DEMAND DISCONTINUATION OF FEDERAL FUNDING 
                  OF DESTRUCTIVE 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. Mr. Speaker, adult stem cell research is pro-life, but 
destroying nascent human beings for research is not pro-life.
  It is said that facts are stubborn things. Fact No. 1 in this debate, 
Mr. Speaker, is that Congress outlawed Federal funding of destructive 
human embryo research in 1996. When the Clinton administration 
authorized the use of Federal funding for embryo stem cell research, 
that law became yet another law trampled by the Clinton administration. 
I pray that President Bush and his administration will not follow suit.
  Fact No. 2, Mr. Speaker: As Dr. Weldon said, not one medical 
treatment has been developed from research done on stem cells from 
human embryos. Virtually every advancement cited today on this floor 
was accomplished with adult stem cell research. Researchers describe 
the usefulness of embryonic stem cells as conjecture.
  The Washington Post today alarmingly reports of the creation of human 
embryos for the express purpose of their destruction. I implore the 
President to make the morally right decision regarding embryo stem cell 
research. The ethics and the law demand that we discontinue Federal 
funding.
  The President should do justice, enforce the law, and choose life so 
that we and our children may live.

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