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Pence Calls for Congress to Stand for the Sanctity of Life

Date: July 13, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Stem Cell Research


PENCE CALLS ON CONGRESS TO STAND FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE -- (Extensions of Remarks - July 13, 2006)

SPEECH OF
HON. MIKE PENCE
OF INDIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2006

* 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.

* Stating 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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