Missouri Catholics Lobby for Stem Cell Ban

Roman Catholic priests across Missouri will distribute to worshippers this weekend close to 700,000 cards that call for the state Legislature to approve a bill that would ban some forms of stem-cell research.

Once signed, the cards will be collected and delivered en masse to legislators in the next few weeks.

It it imperative that all of us ensure that our legislators know that we cannot permit this evil within our state.

"There was an expectation that when the Republicans were elected, that a lot of these issues would be taken care of," said Sam Lee, head of Campaign Life Missouri. "They're not being taken care of."

That also is true of Missouri Right to Life, a major advocate of the ban. Pam Fichter, the group's president, noted that Blunt and much of the Legislature's Republican leadership campaigned last fall as "pro-life candidates" in their bid to woo like-minded voters.
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[Sam] Fox is chairman of the Harbour Group in Clayton, a major benefactor of Washington University and the state's most generous Republican donor. He said Thursday that his opposition to the proposed ban has led him for the first time to get involved in lobbying against a measure under consideration in Jefferson City.

Fox's complaints were similar to those aired by another prominent Missouri Republican, former U.S. Sen. John C. Danforth, in an opinion piece published this week in The New York Times and the Post-Dispatch.

Danforth is another one whose views should be ignored...but, of course, there is no conflict of interest for him...is there?

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