'Cures Without Cloning' Challenges Ballot Language

Members of Cures Without Cloning are challenging a ballot summary of their initiative approved by the Missouri Secretary of State earlier this month.

Cures Without Cloning filed a suit in Cole County Circuit Court late Oct. 19. The suit is requesting the court to invalidate the ballot title certified by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and to adopt a newly proposed summary.

The human cloning supporters in Jefferson City deliberately twisted the language of the proposed ballot initiative to confuse voters. Deception and trickery are common tactics for the political hacks intent on clouding the issues regarding embryonic stem cell research and human cloning...

A press release on Missourians Agains Human Cloning Web Site states:

As Carnahan Attempts to Confuse Voters,

Cures Without Cloning Initiative Exploring All Options

All Options -Including Impeachment - Will be Explored

Some wonder how Missourians could elect such an individual but that's a different issue...Nevertheless, she should be impeached for malfeasance...

Steve Rupp, in a letter to the Editor of the St Louis Post Dispatch writes about the issues:

Second casualty: Truth
Regarding the editorial on embryonic stem cell research, "The first casualty" (Oct. 16): Unfortunately, the editorial created the second casualty: the truth.

The editorial states that the proposed new amendment would replace the Amendment Two definition with a new one. Actually, the new amendment would put into our Constitution the only definition of cloning that is accepted universally and by the National Institute of Health and virtually every textbook ever written on the subject. It is the definition recognized and then banned by seven states and more than a dozen countries around the globe. It is the only definition that is supported by science.

The editorial says that "inducing an egg to divide in a petri dish is not cloning." True. That cannot be done. An egg cannot divide; an embryo can. Using the word egg in this context shows a lack of scientific knowledge or a deliberate attempt to mislead. The editorial says, "To qualify as cloning as most people understand the term...." People should know that somatic cell nuclear transfer is cloning. People are smart enough to get it. They just need a newspaper that uses scientific fact and not language created by those who stand to profit by dehumanizing the human embryo.

Steve Rupp | Florissant

For Missourians, it's another case of "He we go again" as state bureaucrats push lies and falsehoods on the public again because they know that they cannot win in an open honest discussion.

What a disservice to Missouri citizens and what an injustice to the unborn who are created to be deliberately killed for profit...

The St Louis Review has an article on this here.