Phil Gingrey: “Judge Gohmert, I thank you for your kind remarks; and of course you are here not to praise me but to praise God and life…”

“Judge Gohmert, I thank you for your kind remarks; and of course you are here not to praise me but to praise God and life and the sanctity of life at the extremes, the embryo and the senior citizens as well. My colleagues, I cannot over-emphasize the point as I look at this and reference you to this next slide. No lives, no lives are thrown away. We have heard, all of our colleagues have heard people speak on this floor and say there are 400,000 of these extra throw-away embryos available for this research, and they are going to be and I have even heard people say, thrown down the toilet, that they are garbage. I have heard the expression, and I know this is appalling, but to hear the expression that it is nothing but medical waste and they are going to be thrown away anyway, I know that gives many of us and you and me and many of my colleagues chill bumps to think about that. But the point is of these 400,000, those are not all extra and scheduled for the trash can and available for the harvesting of embryonic stem cells.”