Mike Huckabee: Meet and Greet 12/21/07

Mike Huckabee
Meet and Greet, The Rendezvous Banquet Hall
Muscatine, IA 12/21/07

TRANSCRIPT:The sad thing is a lot of people politicize the stem-cell research issue. Everyone I know, from the president on is for stem-cell research. The issue is not stem-cell research, it's more limited than that. The issue is federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It's the only issue that was ever really on the table in the discussion. And the president was right, he was bold and he was courageous. And I really have appreciated the fact that, against all kinds of political pressure, he stood for life on this issue. Now science has proved that he's right. Because just recently, within the last couple of months, medical science research has discovered that there are advantages or at least equal benefits to come from non-embryonic stem cells that can be derived from other stem cell lines that don't involve the creation and destruction of a human life. The president's plan didn't even prohibit private funding for it, it just prohibited taxpayer dollars. Well, I don't want my tax dollars to go to destroy an innocent life either. In fact, I'm gonna show you something, I was in South Carolina and a lady came up to me after I spoke and we were talking about pro-life issues, and she gave met this picture. This is a picture, this is her four-year-old daughter. And this is, I carry it around with me because it's just a great reminder. Her name is Elisha Lancaster, and she is now four years old, her mother's name is Maria, her father's name is Jeff. This little girl was born from a frozen embryo that was frozen for four years, a two-cell embryonic, uh, embryo, two-cell embryo, frozen four years, implanted into the mother and then became this precious little girl, Elisha...

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[charleslawlesss]

I love Huckabee!!! I will cast my vote for him in 2012!!