As Americans, we’ve built a magnificent country and culture by treasuring and protecting life. We value life even more against the dark backdrop of the horrific atrocities of the labor and death camps of World War II, the agony and suffering of which is fully comprehensible only to those who actually experienced them.
We must, therefore, be ever vigilant against allowing ourselves to rationalize our way into unjustly terminating life at any stage. I have consistently and strongly supported stem cell research, especially umbilical cord stem cell research, and celebrate reports that more than 70 human diseases are being treated by this process. I question only the specific kind of embryonic stem cell research that requires human life to be sacrificed by the destruction of a human embryo.
However, we must not allow ourselves to be distracted from the clear and present danger of our national debt, or the immorality if not insanity of Washington’s out-of-control spending which is mortgaging our children’s future. These immediate and immense issues demand fresh new ideas, real-world solutions, and bold new leadership – which is exactly what I’m offering to the people of Arkansas.