Joe Pitts: “we must have stem cell research. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes, these are all very serious diseases that have no…”

“we must have stem cell research. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes, these are all very serious diseases that have no cures. But our research must be ethical. Adult stem cell research holds the most promise for finding cures. We should fund adult stem cell research, and fund it generously, but not embryonic stem cell research. Creating human embryos for research, experimentation, harvesting and destruction is not ethical. Killing one human life, even though very tiny, on the off chance of maybe one day saving another, is not ethical, moral, and, I should add, even legal to do with taxpayer money. Since 1996, our laws ban government funding of research that involves killing human embryos. We should keep that ban. Now we have a study that shows that embryonic stem cells may be too unstable to be of much use anyway, unless they are produced in huge numbers. But there is no such evidence that adult stem cells are unstable. Adult stem cell research holds great promise. Adult stem cell research promises to help us find cures to diseases that have plagued mankind for centuries. Let us fund adult stem cell research, and fund it generously.”