Update on MO Cloning Ban

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The Appeals Court has issued a ruling and it’s pretty bad if you ask me. I don’t have time to go into much detail but here is the story. Basically they changed one word in SOS Carnahan’s disgraceful ballot summary. It doesn’t really matter at this point anyway because it’s too late to try to collect signatures to get it … Read More

Life News From Missouri

ChelseaAbortion, Missouri, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Religion1 Comment

Several things to report from the Show Me State: First, Missouri may soon be offering “Choose Life” license plates after a federal court approved Choose Life of Missouri Inc.’s 2006 application for the specialty plate. It was previously rejected by a joint House and Senate Transportation Committee. This is great news! Not only are these plates a good way to … Read More

Banning Abortion in Missouri?

Chelsea2008 Election, Abortion, Cloning, Politics1 Comment

That’s what an Illinois based group is trying to do. The Secretary of State just approved ballot language for a constitutional amendment so that supporters can start gathering signatures. The text: Shall Missouri law be amended to: * make it illegal for a doctor to provide a woman with an abortion at any time during her pregnancy unless the doctor … Read More

Cures Without Cloning Blog

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Missouri Cures Without Cloning has launched a new blog to help get out accurate and up to date information about cloning, the Missouri initiative to ban human cloning, and the current legal battle we are facing. Check it out! Right now we’re still waiting for a court date to get through this ugly legal mess and hopefully get an accurate … Read More

MO Cloning Ban Update

Chelsea2008 Election, Cloning, PoliticsLeave a Comment

I haven’t heard much about the cloning ban lately until I got a few news alerts in my email today and yesterday. All of them come from the Pathway from the Missouri Baptist Convention: Article one: JEFFERSON CITY—The case of Cures Without Cloning (CWC) v. Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee is likely to … Read More

Cures Without Cloning Initiative Update

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Missourians Against Human Cloning held a press conference Friday morning criticizing Carnahan and the ballot language she approved for the CWC initiative. You can see video of that here. Now Carnahan’s approved language has drawn dueling lawsuits. That’s right, I said dueling, meaning one from both sides. It was inevitable that CWC was going to have to challenge the language, … Read More

Response from Missouri Right to Life

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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

Quadriplegic Files Complaint Against Cures Without Cloning

ChelseaAdult Stem Cell Research, Cloning4 Comments

This story in the KC Star begins by describing Eric Westacott as a lawyer who has filed an ethics complaint against Missouri Cures Without Cloning for failing to file a finance report required by MO law. But, later in the article we come to find out that: Westacott said he filed the complaint because, as a quadriplegic since breaking his … Read More

Banning Cloning in Missouri!

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I told you it was coming and now it’s finally underway! The petition to prohibit human cloning in the state of Missouri has officially been launched today. Dr. Lori Buffa, of St. Peters, Missouri, who serves as chair of the coalition Cures Without Cloning, filed proposed ballot language with the Secretary of State’s office this morning. The coalition seeks to … Read More

My Letter to the Editor

ChelseaAdult Stem Cell Research, Personal3 Comments

I finally got in my letter in response to the Quadriplegic lawyer who filed a complaint against Cures Without Cloning. It was a little harder than other letters I’ve written because they only allow up to 150 words. I’m used to at least 2-300. You can find it at the KC Star’s Unfettered Letters: This letter is in response to … Read More