Bill Nelson: “this, to me, is an issue where we ought to be using some common sense. We have all of these enormously plaguing diseases…”

“this, to me, is an issue where we ought to be using some common sense. We have all of these enormously plaguing diseases that are upon us, and we have the first rays of hope we can cure these diseases. Who among Americans has not been touched by diseases such as ALS and Parkinson's and spinal cord injury and diabetes and Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease and cancer? Who among us, one way or another, has not been touched by it? Now we have this ray of hope that the scientists tell us, by growing these stem cells, we have this opportunity for enormous medical breakthroughs. At the National Prayer Breakfast this year, the speaker was Dr. Francis Collins. He is the fellow who headed the project of mapping the entire human genome. I have heard Dr. Collins speak on other occasions in which he has talked about the promise of all of the stem cell research.”