[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10135]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      EMBRYONIC STEM CELL 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, in the coming days Congress will consider 
legislation to make taxpayer dollars available for what is known as 
embryonic stem cell research, setting the case for an imminent 
Presidential veto.
  In 2001, President Bush made the moral dimensions of scientific 
testing on human embryos clear. These are the principles.
  It is morally wrong to create human life to destroy it for research. 
Also, it is morally wrong to take the tax dollars of millions of pro-
life Americans and use them to finance research that they find morally 
objectionable.
  The choice of our time was described millennia ago: See I set before 
you blessings and curses, life and death. Now choose life that you and 
your children may live.
  I urge my colleagues to stand for the sanctity of life at every 
level. Stand with President George W. Bush. Reject taxpayer funding of 
human embryo research.

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