mr. speaker , i come to speak for life , life for people with diabetes , life for people with parkinson 's , life for people with damaged hearts . 
what possible benefit is it for life to discard these cells without allowing them to be used to bring life , to save life , to preserve life ? 
if these cells have any future , it is through curing disease . 
if members wish to give them life , then let them give life to others . 
this is their only hope , and it is our best hope . 
dr . 
connie davis , the medical director of university of washington 's kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant program , put this discussion in perspective when i was talking to her yesterday . 
she reminded me that the donation of a kidney used to be a controversial issue in this country . 
it is no longer so . 
our bill allows donors of these stem cells to make a donation decision , a donation to research . 
a narrow segment of our nation did not stop lifesaving kidney donations , and a narrow segment should not stop embryonic stem cell research . 
healing is a moral thing to do . 
i met a man at the transplant association the other day . 
he and his wife had , in fact , had an in vitro fertilization . 
he had other additional embryos that were available . 
he wanted to make those available to cure people with diabetes and parkinson 's disease , and he had one thing he asked me . 
he said to me , let me and my wife make that moral judgment , not the 435 strangers who know nothing about my moral interior values or my life . 
that is an american right to donation . 
we should preserve it and pass this bill . 
