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Missouri's Cloning Initiative: Your State Could Be Next! 10/16/2006 Missouri voters will decide whether to fund embryo-destructive research. Missourians will vote on a key initiative this November 7, the outcome of which could be essential or detrimental to women's health and the protection of human life in the state. The proposed amendment to be voted on, the "Missouri Research and Cures Initiative" or Amendment 2, will force taxpayers to fund human cloning for research purposes.
The text that will appear on the ballot is deceptive. One part claims that the measure will "ban human cloning or attempted cloning." Article 6.2 of the amendment (which will not be printed on the ballot), however, extrapolates on its creative definition of human cloning: "clone or attempt to clone a human being means to implant in a uterus or attempt to plant in a uterus..."
In other words, the measure would allow the creation of human embryos for experiments which would involve their destruction, as long as the embryos are not implanted in a uterus. The framers of the initiative have narrowed the definition of cloning to mean the implantation of a cloned embryo into a uterus, attempting to fool voters who have not read the fine print.
Another facet of the initiative most likely unknown to voters is the harm such research would cause women. In order to generate the eggs required for the embryonic stem cell research endorsed by Amendment 2, many women would be required to take high doses of ovulation stimulating hormones. Up to 35% of women who undergo such ovarian stimulation have been proven to experience health consequences, while up to 14% of these consequences are severe. Risks include stroke, infertility, organ failure and death.
Up to this point, embryonic stem cell research has fruitlessly led to the destruction of countless live human embryos. Not one treatment or cure has resulted from such experimentation. Adult stem cell research, however, has provided promising treatments for many illnesses, including diabetes, heart disease, sickle cell anemia and Parkinson's disease.
For more information on Amendment 2, click here.
For quick talking points on Amendment 2, click here.
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