Virginia Foxx: “I think that all the physicians on our side of the aisle are very strong pro-lifers and are working very hard to get the…”

“I think that all the physicians on our side of the aisle are very strong pro-lifers and are working very hard to get the information out about this issue. As you point out, those stem cells, those coming from the umbilical cord and those coming from the placenta and the amniotic fluid, have shown tremendous results. The other thing that the media does not point out and that people who are proposing that we go to embryonic stem cell research with government funding, they don't point out the fact that over 70 diseases have been treated by adult stem cells and zero treatments have come out of embryonic stem cell research, even though embryonic stem cell research just passed the 25-year mark. For over 25 years, scientists have been looking into using embryonic stem cells, and we have really gotten nothing but negative results from that, and we have gotten tremendously positive results from adult stem cell research. So that is why it is so important that we always distinguish between adult stem cell research and embryonic stem cell research.”