I wouldn’t exactly go that far, but another pro-cloning columnist, this time in the KC Star, agrees that the language approved by the Secretary of State on a ballot summary for a human cloning ban is “confusing” and “misleading.” The best part of the whole commentary is where he admits that Amendment 2 did not ban cloning and that its … Read More
Star Parker Rocks My World
I was able to watch a little bit of the Values Voter Summit today on C-Span. And I turned it on right as Star Parker was speaking. She’s so fun to watch. My dad got to know her pretty well when he was working at Vitae Caring Foundation and she was a frequent speaker for them and he would rave … Read More
Debunking Adult Stem Cell Myths
It’s happened before and now we see it again, adult stem cells can be manipulated to become other types of cells. This time it’s fat cells that have been morphed into nerve cells (h/t Wesley Smith). I gotta tell you I cringe every time I hear news stories about stem cell research which go into an “explanation” of what stem … Read More
More Missouri Manipulation
Cathy Ruse takes on the KC Star and the St. Louis Post for their biased reporting about cloning and their defense of Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan’s disastrous and inaccurate ballot summary of the cloning ban. Wesley Smith does the same, offering some scientific and medical sources which all say SCNT is cloning. We can’t really expect much in the … Read More
More on Gov. Blunt
Update: The St. Louis Post has more on Blunt’s and other’s campaign contributions. A lot of it has to do with the restrictions put in place this year on the amount that can be donated (which I think is stupid). In the article, regarding the contribution to Blunt’s campaign from the pro-ESC research group: Blunt spokesman John Hancock said the … Read More
Blunt Gets $250K from ESC Research Supporters
The St. Louis Post reports that Republican Gov. Matt Blunt received $250,000 this summer from the Supporters of Health Research and Treatments. That’s one of the political-action committees set up by supporters of Amendment 2, and Missouri Pulse reports that Blunt has raised just over $1 million in the last quarter. So the pro-ESC research donation accounts for 1/4 of … Read More
Life Issues Forum
I forgot to post some pictures I took at the Life Issues Forum I spoke at the other week at St. Anne’s Catholic church in Warsaw Missouri. Our diocesan pro-life committee travels around the diocese organizing these forums to keep parishioners up to date on life issues, especially those which concern our state. In this picture, Dr. Lankford, from Mexico … Read More
NARAL For Rudy?
Not quite yet. But, in an interview with the Huffington Post, the abortion rights group’s political director, Elizabeth Shipp said that it: “would help” the pro-choice movement if a Republican proved it was possible to win the presidency while still supporting abortion rights. “The Republican Party used to be about the conservative principles of limited government intervention in private life,” … Read More
“Missouri Manipulation”
Cathy Ruse writes at National Review about the disastrous ballot language approved by the Secretary of State yesterday for an attempt to ban cloning in Missouri: The only way to keep human cloning legal in Missouri is through lies. And Secretary Carnahan has just dropped a whopper. Isn’t that the truth? Even Bill McClellan of the St. Louis Dispatch, a … Read More
Response from Missouri Right to Life
Attributed to president Pam Fichter from MRL’s press release today: “Missouri Right to Life is outraged at the Secretary of State’s blatantly inaccurate and biased summary of the Cures Without Cloning ballot initiative. The ballot summary is profoundly different than the proposed amendment. Secretary Carnahan is greatly abusing the powers of her office and ignoring the legal requirement to use … Read More