When is a clone not a clone...?

That's a simple question - when Amendment 2 supporters redefine the terms...

An article in the Orlando Sentinel by Kathleen Parker confirms what opponents of Amendment 2 have been saying for months:

"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."
-- U.S. Rep. Willard Duncan Vandiver, 1899

Vandiver's words spoken more than a century ago helped to popularize his home state's unofficial designation as the "Show-Me State." Whether they still hold true will be tested Nov. 7 when voters try to wrap their minds around a stem-cell amendment that is long on "frothy eloquence" and short on "show me."

It has been suggested that the researchers have been practicing the slogan with other words, hoping, as they changed the definition of cloning, that they can also redefine the State slogan - "SHOW ME, the MONEY"!

To be clear: Approval of "Constitutional Amendment 2" would mean approval of a constitutional right to clone.

Yet, when voters go to the polls, that's not what they'll read on the ballot. Instead, they'll vote on a bullet-point summary of the 2,100-word amendment that reads like a pro-life manifesto blended with progressive compassion.

It's deceptive, it's tricky, it's designed to obfuscate the truth...

What's not to love? Never mind that stem-cell research of every kind is legal today and happening in Missouri. Or that the people of Missouri are not now, nor will they ever be, denied access to cures and therapies of whatever sort.

But that's not what the TV and Radio spots tell us - we are told that some in the "Show me the money" state want to deny us access to cures...More spin and deceptions from the Danforths and their cohorts.

As for cloning, no one should be surprised to hear that it depends on what one's definition is. By using less-familiar scientific language, supporters of the stem-cell initiative effectively have redefined "cloning" to mean only reproductive cloning -- that is, implantation of a lab-created embryo in a woman's womb for the purpose of creating a human being.

As reported many times, the cloning for killing advocates have taken a page directly from the William Jefferson Clinton playbook - redefine terms to mean something they are not.

While the amendment would ban that procedure, it would allow "somatic cell nuclear transfer," which is the widely accepted scientific definition of "cloning."

Not according to the supporters of the Amendment - who are, apparently, quite astute proteges of Clinton.

Whether one clones an embryo for birth, or clones an embryo for research, a clone is a clone is a clone.

The people of Missouri are NOT to be told things like this...the MCLC (Missouri Coalition for Legalized Con-games) will be upset if the truth comes out.

Sentient humans are probably wondering why Missouri needs a constitutional amendment for embryonic-stem-cell research when it is already legal.

The answer is coming....

Given the confusing language of the amendment, one can objectively conclude that whatever the intent, voters aren't being dealt a straight hand.

There are card-sharks and cheaters at the table...

The driving force behind the proposed amendment is the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, which has raised $30.1 million to push the initiative, [nearly all of it from ] James and Virginia Stowers, the billionaire founders of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a biomedical research company in Kansas City, Mo., that focuses on finding solutions to gene-based diseases...[and]...Their new entity, BioMed Valley Discoveries...a for-profit enterprise designed to market scientific discoveries.

May the people of the State of Missouri see this Amendment for what it truly is - a blank check from the taxpayers paid to researchers for cloning human life only to kill that life - and all of this, to be done with impunity and with an unheard of PROTECTION and IMMUNITY from any govermental oversight.

May the Stowers millions of dollars spent on this campaign go up in smoke.