The lawyers who wrote Amendment 2 work for giant biotechnology labs that plan to make billions of dollars by cloning humans for research. They wanted to guarantee that Missouri lawmakers could never outlaw it. But they knew that most Missourians oppose the idea of creating and destroying human life in a laboratory.

How did Amendment 2's slick promoters get around this? Simple. Instead of being honest about their objective, they came up with a phony definition of "cloning" and pretended to ban it.

- Learn more about the deceptive wording of Amendment 2

Amendment 2's backers want permission to clone an unlimited number of human beings for research. If they succeed, they will need literally millions of human eggs. Amendment 2 would allow fertility clinics to pay women any amount of money for their eggs, creating a mini-Gold Rush in human tissue.

- Learn how Amendment 2 will exploit the women of Missouri

Amendment 2 is confusing because the special-interest lawyers who wrote it wanted it to be confusing. It would provide legal protections for researchers who create and destroy human life. It would practically guarantee limitless government funding of that research. It would create a cottage industry in human eggs. And it would insulate researchers from legal responsibility when things go wrong.

- Learn more about the confusing fine print in Amendment 2

Amendment 2's 2,100 words would alter 45 different sections of Missouri's Constitution. And those changes would last forever.

- Learn how Amendment 2 would make human cloning permanent in Missouri

Do you want your tax dollars to pay for human-cloning experiments? You won't have a choice if voters approve Amendment 2.

Private investors have begun to doubt the usefulness of cloning research, so Amendment 2's Big Biotech backers are counting on Big Government to commit your money to fund their work.

- Learn how Amendment 2 cleverly takes your tax dollars