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Address by President George W. Bush July 3, 2008 Thank you. I am pleased to address the National Right to Life’s annual convention and I send warm greetings to your president, Dr. Wanda Franz. I thank all the men and women in attendance for your commitment to protecting the unborn. Our nation’s Declaration of Independence promises that all people have an unalienable right to life. It states that this right comes from our creator. And that government exists to secure the rights of its citizens. For the past eight years my administration has proudly stood with you to ensure that our nation lives up to this noble promise. Working together, we promoted adoption, abstinence education, and crisis pregnancy programs. We have fought to ensure that U.S. tax dollars were not used to perform or promote abortions overseas. We have worked to secure legislation that allows prosecutors to charge those who harm or kill a pregnant woman with harming or killing her unborn child as well. We’ve extended legal protection to children who were born despite abortion attempts, and we’ve enacted a ban on the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion. We defended this good law all the way to the Supreme Court, and we prevailed. The majority that issued this landmark ruling included two outstanding justices that we worked tirelessly together to confirm: John Roberts and Sam Alito. We also stood strong in defending the principle that effective medical science can still be ethical. We embrace the healing potential of stem cell research, but ensured that federally funded research is conducted within clear moral boundaries. And we saw the promise of this policy realized when scientists discovered a way to reprogram adult cells to act like embryonic stem cells, extending the frontiers of medicine without destroying human life. For eight years we have stood together to defend the principle that every human life has value. I thank all of you for your support, and I join you in looking forward to the day when every child is welcomed in life, and protected in law.
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