[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22804]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          SENATOR KERRY STUMBLES BADLY ON STEM CELLS RESEARCH

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, in the debate last night, 
Senator Kerry stumbled badly when asked a question on the stem cell 
research debate. He suggested that the only choice was between 
continuing cryogenically freezing those embryos or their destruction. 
That is not the only option. Those embryos can be and are being 
adopted.
  A couple of weeks ago, right nearby, in the Capitol here, I met with 
more than a dozen little children who were once cryogenically frozen 
embryos who were adopted. Their parents, in their love and compassion, 
those who had made the contribution and had created these new embryos, 
allowed those individuals to be adopted; and those kids had names like 
Michael and Katie. They are not throwaways. No human being is a 
throwaway.
  I hope we will disabuse ourselves, Mr. Speaker, of this false idea 
that there is such a thing as a ``spare'' embryo. Every embryo that is 
not wanted, that is not going to be implanted in the donor mother--
these mothers, ought to allow that embyro to be adopted.

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