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."
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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.
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.
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.