I hear from my b-i-l, that you guys passed a cloning amendment...

[MissMarple]

Now, how did he get that confused? Stem cell research is the same as cloning? What kind of kool aid are they handing out in St.Louis? This is the kind of willful ignorance we are continually up against. I know he was fully informed of the differences, he just choses to embrace the propaganda. We did laugh at him, though. He was grasping at straw to save the spin based party.

Anyhoo, congratulations Missouri!

[wildflowergardener]

1. cloning

that's what the opponants were saying - vote no to human cloning.

Meg

[AllegroRondo]

2. Yup, it was all propaganda

the law specifically bans cloning, but all the negative ads said "we cant allow cloning! vote no!"

then there were the ads that claimed poor women would sell their eggs and end up with medical problems from it, even thought the law specifially bans buying and selling of human eggs.

[xmas74]

3. Interesting how it

was fine for women to donate their eggs for fertility reasons before but they made a huge deal out of egg donation when they wanted to argue stem cell.

That was one of my big arguments just a few weeks back-why would it be ok for one and not the other? (I know-it banned buying and selling for research). The big argument was why was it ok to supposedly render a woman infertile for donating eggs for a couple to freeze indefinitely but not ok for that same woman to use them for research w/ an assumed risk of infertility to herself?