Missouri Cloning Amendment Could Nullify Laws Regulating Abortion

That’s according to Jim Cole, volunteer legal counsel with Missouri Right to Life, who has written a series of papers detailing the flaws of the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.

The initiative, said Cole, "is sold to the public as a way to save lives, but the proposal guarantees that human lives can be created by fertilization and then killed for stem cells." He said the effort would nullify Missouri abortion laws that currently protect against that kind of action.

Missouri has several laws dealing with the use of tissue, including stem cells, from aborted human embryos...

...Those abortion laws would be affected "because of the provisions that say you can’t have any government action to prohibit or discourage or provide a disincentive for stem cell research and stem cell therapies."

There is a section of the ballot initiative which states:

"No state or local law, regulation, rule, charter, ordinance or other governmental action shall (i) prevent, restrict, obstruct or discourage any stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures that are permitted by this section to be conducted or provided, or (ii) create disincentives for any person to engage in or otherwise associate with such research or therapies and cures."

"This would be in the Missouri constitution, so it would override any statutes to the contrary," said Cole.

And this is just another of the the multitude of problems associated with engaging in intrinsically evil acts.

There is much more, including the fact that:

the definition of a blastocyst in the text of the initiative differs from section 188.015.6 of Missouri law, which states that an unborn child is considered "the offspring of human beings from the moment of conception until birth and at every stage of its biological development, including the human conceptus, zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo and fetus."

The initiative’s text, however, lays out that a blastocyst is "a small mass of cells that results from cell division, caused either by fertilization or by somatic cell nuclear transfer, that has not been implanted in a uterus."

And not only this, but for Missourians, the term "cloning" will also be redefined...

Jennifer Brinker, a St Louis Review Staff Writer, has a great article this week on the upcoming attempt to deceive Missouri voters in November.