mr. speaker , while europe and singapore and california and korea are moving forward in an effort to relieve human suffering , the united states congress , 435 theologians , have gathered here to decide a values decision . 
we have no guidance . 
there was no in vitro fertilization or stem cell research when jesus walked on the earth . 
we are left to make the decision on our own . 
the decision comes down to this : a man and woman come in to a physician . 
he presents some semen . 
she presents some eggs . 
they put them in a jar or they put them in a petri plate , and it becomes an embryo . 
they have several of them ; so they use one . 
they put it in the mother . 
she has a baby . 
and there are a bunch left . 
now what shall we do with those ? 
shall we throw them down the sink , wash them away , or shall we use them to help people who have terribly debilitating diseases ? 
that is what this issue is about . 
like the last speaker , i am a physician . 
i have counseled people who were dying with lou gehrig 's disease . 
to watch somebody drown in their own secretions , someone that you know and care about , and then come in here and say we are not going to look for a way to relieve that kind of agony , we will not worry about a 13-year-old kid who gets diabetes and has to give himself thousands and thousands of shots and loses the length of life that most of us expect because of that disease ; we will say to them , well , jesus wanted us to do this . 
i do not remember the lord ever saying that . 
i do not ever remember his saying , i gave you a brain , you human beings . 
i do not want you to figure anything out . 
i do not want you to make it any better . 
this is a perfectly good values judgment on which everybody should vote `` yes . '' 