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What is being touted as the Missouri Research and Cures Initiative can be confusing and misleading. While the details of the scientific process used to create human embryo clones for stem cell research are complicated, those of us who are not molecular biologists can understand the facts when they are presented honestly.

Please use the information on this website to educate yourself and those you know about Amendment 2. We need to spread the truth about this misleading amendment before November 7. Please get involved. For more information, contact us today.

Amendment 2 is Too Deceptive

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 is Too Exploitive

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 Too Confusing

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 is Too Permanent

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


Amendment 2 is Too Clever

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


 
Resources
For More Information
Why Amendment 2 is too tricky
Key Facts about Stem Cell Research
Prepared by the Vitae Caring Foundation
FAQs about Stem Cell Research and Cloning
Prepared by the Center for Bioethics
Analysis of Amendment 2 Language
Prepared by Missouri Roundtable
Exposing the Taxpayer Loan to Clone Scam
Prepared by the Bioethics Defense Fund
Women's Voices Against Cloning
Prepared by Focus on the Family
Negative Effects of Embryonic Stem Cell Research on Women
Prepared by Hands off our Ovaries
Ethics of Stem Cell Research
Prepared by the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
Benefits of Adult Stem Cells to Human Patients
Prepared by the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
Top Myths about Stem Cell Research and Cloning
Prepared by the Vitae Caring Foundation