The ironic thing is Jim Langevin, while pro-embryo stem cell research, is pro-life on everything else.
"The ironic thing is Jim Langevin, while pro-embryo stem cell research, is pro-life on everything else."
There are dozens of Congressmen, Democrat and Republican alike, who are pro-life on every vote except when it comes to federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. We need these pro-lifers to vote their conscience no matter what the media will say about them.
An interesting case is Democrat Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who is nominally pro-life (the only Democrat Congresswoman about which that can be said) but who almost always votes for abortion funding. Kaptur bucked the trend by voting *against* federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research when it was adopted by the House in May 2005, when the veto override failed in July 2006, and just last week when it passed the House again. See
http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/keyvotes/?id=467 Unfortunately, she voted with the Democrat leadership on the anti-cloning amendment to the stem-cell research bill, which failed 189-238.