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  For Immediate Release                                Contact: Rebeccah Ramey  202.226.5536 
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**Congress and President Bush Refuse to Allow Tax Dollars to Fund the
Destruction of Human Life**

**Congressman Franks Votes to Sustain President's Veto of H.R. 810**

July 21, 2006---Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02) is one of 193 Members
in the U.S. House of Representatives this week who sustained the
President's veto of H.R. 810, preventing American tax dollars from
funding embryonic stem cell research.

**"If Americans deny the reality that human life begins at a definitive
point in time, conception, we wade into perilous waters that warn us of
a nightmarish future filled with the unthinkable, such as human cloning,
fetal farming, and abortion on demand.  To deny the maxim that life
begins at conception is to promise the desecration of human dignity,"**
remarked Congressman Franks.

H.R. 810 would have provided federal funds for experimenting on what the
scientific and medical communities have already proven to be genetically
distinct and biologically alive human embryos.  As Doctor-Lawyer Kelly
Hollowell reminded listeners at a Heritage Foundation lecture last year,
"The United States Congress received the answer that life begins at
conception most definitively in 1981.  At hearings on the Human Life
Bill (S. 158), held by the Senate Judiciary Commit­tee's Separation of
Powers Subcommittee, interna­tionally renowned scientists Dr. Micheline
Mathews-Roth (Harvard Medical School), Dr. Jerome Lejeune (the father of
modern genetics), Dr. Hymie Gordon (chairman of the Mayo Clinic), and
Dr. Landrum Shettles (the father of IVF) *all testified that life begins
at conception.*  This, as far as the medical and scien­tific community is
concerned, is not an issue.  The debate is in the legal and political
realms."

Congressman Franks lauds the scientific community for successfully
discovering therapies, by using adult stem cells, to treat thousands of
human patients who were suffering from over seventy-two different
diseases.  Adult stem cells have helped treat, for example, Parkinson's
disease and diabetes in children.

Rep. Franks said, **"I commend the pioneers in science and medicine who
offer hope to Americans with disabilities.  May we all remember that the
noblest pursuit of science and human genius is to protect and preserve
the quality and dignity of human life. With the defeat of H.R. 810 we
can now focus our energy upon that pursuit through the far more
effective adult stem cell research, which does not compromise the
sanctity of human life."**

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  *Trent Franks represents the 2nd Congressional District of Arizona.  He
  is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Judiciary
  Committee and Vice Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee.*

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