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Missouri Amendment 2: All Trick, No Treat
Exposing the 3 D's of this Voter Deception
Over 80% of Missourians oppose human cloning, and 100% oppose being played for a fool by tricky lawyers who drafted Amendment 2. Take a look for yourself, Show Me State. Everyone else, hold one to your wallet if this wins on November 7 because this hoax will be coming to a State near you.
Preface: Amendment 2 is 2,400 words long, nearly half the size of the U.S. Constitution. By Missouri law, voters will not see Amendment 2 when they go to the polls but rather a 100-word ballot summary. The ballot summary contains deceptive language about human cloning and makes no mention of two other explosive provisions in the Amendment regarding the sale of human eggs and the use of taxpayer dollars.
The ballot summary was challenged in court by BDF lawyers as misleading. The judge failed to correct the deception, ruling in essence that the ballot summary accurately repeats the deceptive language of the amendment. A Missouri appeals court judge noted that “[t]he ballot summary will tend to mislead those who are … opposed to …cloning.” (Judge James Smart, Missouri Court of Appeals)
Here are the 3 tricks in Missouri's Cloning Amendment:
1. Deceptive. Section 2 says it bans cloning. The trick is in Section 6 which gives biotech firms the constitutional right to conduct “somatic cell nuclear transfer,” the scientific definition for cloning; the same method used to clone Dolly the sheep:
Section 2(1): No person may clone or attempt to clone a human being.
Section 6(5): “Human embryonic stem cell research,” also referred to as “early stem cell research,” means any scientific or medical research involving human stem cells derived from in vitro fertilization blastocysts or from somatic cell nuclear transfer. For purposes of this section, human embryonic stem cell research does not include stem cell clinical trials.
2. Daughters. Section 2 says human eggs may not be bought or sold. The trick is in Section 6(17) which gives biotech firms the right to pay our cash-strapped daughters thousands of dollars to harvest their eggs, which will be needed in the millions for the kind of unethical experimentation this amendment would allow:
Section 2(4): No person may, for valuable consideration, purchase or sell human blastocysts or eggs for stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures.
Section 6(17): “Valuable consideration” means financial gain or advantage, but does not include reimbursement for reasonable costs incurred in connection with the removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transfer, or donation of human eggs, sperm, or blastocysts, including lost wages of the donor. Valuable consideration also does not include the consideration paid to a donor of human eggs or sperm by a fertilization clinic or sperm bank, as well as any other consideration expressly allowed by federal law.
3. Dollars. Amendment 2 gives biotech special interests a blank check to do human cloning at taxpayer expense, but this isn’t mentioned in the 100-word ballot summary:
Section 5: To ensure that no governmental body or official arbitrarily restricts funds designated for purposes other than stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures as a means of inhibiting lawful stem cell research or stem cell therapies and cures, 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 or provides stem cell therapies and cures, allows for such research or therapies and cures to be conducted or provided on its premises, or is otherwise associated with such research or therapies and cures, but (ii) receives or is eligible to receive such public funds for purposes other than such stem cell-related activities, on account of, or otherwise for the purpose of creating disincentives for any person to engage in or otherwise associate with, or preventing, restricting, obstructing, or discouraging, such stem cell-related activities.
For more info on the Ballot Deception:
www.2Tricky.org, Missourians Against Human Cloning
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