Don’t Make Missouri the CLONE ME STATE!

 

Scientists are supposed to be objective. So why is Big Biotech using high priced lawyers to draft and promote Missouri Amendment 2 which contains the blatant deception in the voting booth that it “bans human cloning”? Follow the money

• Amendment 2 creates a constitutional right to clone human embryos to be used as a cash crop for science experiments.

  To hide the truth, the 5 page Amendment refers only to “stem cell research” and “somatic cell nuclear transfer,” the scientific definition for cloning; the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep.”

• It allows cash-strapped college students to be paid thousands of dollars to be used as egg farms - at the risk of their life and their future fertility.

  This tricky amendment says on page 2 that women cannot be paid “valuable consideration” for their eggs – then it guts the definition of “valuable consideration” on page 5 such that women CAN be paid!

• It writes a blank check for the Biotech Industry to pick the pockets of Missouri taxpayers for their unethical and unproven cloning experiments – without telling voters about about this money grab in the 100-word ballot summary.

  Here’s the Blank Check hiding in Section 5 of the 2000 words that would be added by Amendment 2:

  “. . .no state or local governmental body or official shall eliminate, reduce, deny, or withhold any public funds provided or eligible to be provided . . . to a person that (i) lawfully conducts stem cell research. . . .”

~ by jimjams on October 30, 2006.