Posted on 07/19/2006 2:51:48 PM PDT by theworkersarefew
Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) should be commended for speaking articulately about the problems with federally funded stem-cell research. Pence, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, has been one of the few lawmakers able to simplify the issue.
Take, for instance, Pence's most recent statement. He makes the point that President Bush should stress when he vetoes the bill: Taxpayers who morally disagree with the destruction of human embryos shouldn't have their taxes used for federally funded research.
"President Ronald Reagan famously said, 'we cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life.'
"Yesterday the United States Senate passed a bill that authorizes the use of federal tax dollars to fund the destruction of human embryos for scientific research.
"And while supporters of the bill argue that this debate is a battle between science and ideology, that really misses the point.
"If the Castle-DeGette bill returns to the Congress tonight, we will simply decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
"You see, I believe that life begins at conception and that a human embryo is human life. I believe it is morally wrong to create human life to destroy it for research. And I believe it is morally wrong to take the tax dollars of millions of pro-life Americans, who believe that life is sacred, and use it to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
"This debate then tonight is not really about what an embryo is. This debate is about who we are as a nation and whether we respect fully half of our country.
"On behalf of those millions of pro-life Americans, Mr. President, veto this bill."
PENCE TO PRESIDENT BUSH: VETO EMBRYONIC STEM CELL BILL
Rep. Pence with President Bush during June 28 meeting in the Oval Office
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7-19-2006
Washington, Jul 19 -
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence today made the following statement on the House floor concerning legislation that would allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research:
"President Ronald Reagan famously said, 'we cannot diminish the value of one category of human life-the unborn-without diminishing the value of all human life.'
"Yesterday the United States Senate passed a bill that authorizes the use of federal tax dollars to fund the destruction of human embryos for scientific research.
"And while supporters of the bill argue that this debate is a battle between science and ideology, that really misses the point.
"If the Castle-DeGette bill returns to the Congress tonight, we will simply decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
"You see, I believe that life begins at conception and that a human embryo is human life. I believe it is morally wrong to create human life to destroy it for research. And I believe it is morally wrong to take the tax dollars of millions of pro-life Americans, who believe that life is sacred, and use it to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
"This debate then tonight is not really about what an embryo is. This debate is about who we are as a nation and whether we respect fully half of our country.
"On behalf of those millions of pro-life Americans, Mr. President, veto this bill."
www.mikepence.house.gov
Until he changes his mind.
Can we exapand on that? There's a boatlaod of crap that comes out of Washington that I find morally reprehensible, and I'd like not to have to pay for it.
This is about protecting life.If you want to post your blatant lies and propaganda do it on another thread.
I have none...Pence is a pandering politican...period.....just like the rest of them.
you say he flip flops and he pandersPROVE IT.Name one time his whole career where he has flip flopped other than his support for the 02 farm bill? There is no one with more conservative credibility than Mike Pence.
That is a flip flop.
yes,but he flipped form moderate to conservative on that.(from supporting massive AG subsidies not not supporting them) name one time Penc ehas ever Flipped from the Conservative position to the liberal or moderate one?????
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) is no finger-in-the-wind politician. Pence operates from a firm set of conservative principles; he does not do that which is simply expedient and momentarily advantageous politically. During my years in Washington conservatives have had their fair share of principled legislators in Congress. Not all were effective. They held the right views but lacked the leadership skills and organizing capability to have a true impact on legislation. Pence, however, appears to offer the gift of leadership, a conservative House Member, with the potential to have a substantial impact upon the legislative process and, therefore, is well worth watching. .....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668748/posts
You can't have it both ways and tell me he has never flip flopped ....then say he flip to a more conservative position....that is a flip flop...in the Kerry style.
That was Joan Baez's rationale for withholding her taxes; she didn't think people who disagreed with the war against Vietnam should have their taxes used for such. Perhaps there's a general principle here.
You're making a fool of yourself.
Can't say he doesn't flip flop ....then say he flip flopped on the farm bill in 02.
Abortion advocates need fetal stem-cell research to create moral ambiguity surrounding abortion, which is really nothing short of mass murder. If it could be said that, "only fetal stem cells can cure the world of [insert your favorite dread disease]," then these murderers could feel a tiny shred of justification.
As it is -- and no matter what the utility of fetal stem cells -- abortion advocates deserve hell, forever.
Don't waste your time arguing with the Pence bashers. They're friggin morons.
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