[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18953]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            WELCOMING DAVE AND KELLY KEIM OF BERNE, INDIANA

  (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, I rise this morning to welcome Dave and Kelly 
Keim of Berne, Indiana, to our Nation's capital. They are in town today 
to stand with many others in this building to oppose embryonic stem 
cell research.
  Why would people come from Berne, Indiana? The answer can be found in 
their 18-month-old twins, Caroline and Spencer, who are a daily and 
profound reminder that embryonic adoption should be preferred in the 
law always over destroying human embryos for stem cell research.
  Mr. Speaker, Caroline and Spencer Keim are fully human today, just as 
they were 18 short months ago when they were in the frozen embryonic 
stage of their development. They stand as a living testament to the 
truth that it would have been morally wrong to destroy their embryonic 
lives, even for well-intentioned medical research.
  Ronald Reagan said it wisely in the year 1984, ``We cannot diminish 
the value of one category of human life, the unborn, without 
diminishing the value of all human life.''
  Mr. Speaker, I welcome Dave and Kelly Keim and their two beautiful 
twins, Caroline and Spencer, to Washington today, and I thank them for 
their courageous stand for life in this critical issue of embryonic 
stem cell research.

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