Rep. Zack Space made an emotional appeal to colleagues on the House floor Thursday, imploring lawmakers to support legislation to lift federal funding limits on embryonic stem cell research, saying the bill is his son’s “only meaningful hope for a cure.”

Space’s youngest son, Nicholas, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes 10 years ago, when he was 6 years old. Since then, he has waged a battle against this devastating disease - undergoing thousands of injections and blood tests.

Nicholas Space is now a sophomore at Dover High School, where he plays football.

Diabetes can lead to amputations, blindness, kidney failure or premature death.

According to Space, there is an opportunity to help his son and the millions of others who depend upon the promise of this science. He also believes that, Stem cell research represents the only meaningful hope for a cure in his son’s lifetime.

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