Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36 I wish to present a petition from a number of petitioners from my riding of Huron--Bruce who find that it would be an objective scientific fact that a human being exists from fertilization on. They also believe it to be unethical to harm or destroy some human beings in order to benefit others, embryos being destroyed in the process of taking stem cells being the example.
Adult stem cell research holds enormous potential and does not pose the serious ethical questions of stem cell research using embryos and aborted fetal tissue.
They therefore petition the Parliament of Canada to ban human embryo research and direct the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support and fund only promising ethical research that does not involve the destruction of human life.