Mike Pence: “It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, as I close, we must decide whether we will master science or be mastered by it. It is the…”

“It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, as I close, we must decide whether we will master science or be mastered by it. It is the fundamental moral and ethical question of our time. As the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) said, we must prevent human life from becoming a wholesale commodity that is created and consumed. In closing, Mr. Speaker, we must be about the values of the American people, people like Mike and Denice Dora, farmers in Rush County, Indiana, of 15 years, our friends; but they are people who look and open up that ancient book upon which our founders placed so much trust that says, ``Remember this and consider, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.'' This debate must center around that conviction, those values; and if it does, we will prevent this moral horror of human cloning at any level, for any purpose, from becoming a reality in American civilization.”