Comments on: Proposed Missouri Amendment 2: Pro human cloning?

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:31:07 +0000

Support for Amendment 2 has been steadily slipping as voters have been learning the truth. This is a major fraud, it is all about money. The biotech industry, backed by the billionaires who started the Stowers Institute in Kansas City, have spent $30 million dollars on this campaign – more than Jim Talent and Claire McCaskill have spent COMBINED.
Biomedical tesearch is a multi-billion dollar BUSINESS – it has no right to constitutional protection.
I have a 24-year-old daughter with a spinal cord injury who has been doing everything she can to get people to vote no on this amendment. Please check out her beautiful blog – reflectionsofaparalytic.com.
Thanks!

By: mamapajamas

mamapajamas — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:27:15 +0000

@ Lorica: And what if they do start to make clones??? You will then have a permenant sub-human class that will have to be dealt with in every way envisioned. New laws will have to be passed, new ethical standards, new programs for “disposal” of these new sub-humans. What a damn mess.

You’ve hit it on the head right here. And let’s take it one step further. What about hypothetical laws concerning these “sub-humans”??? There was nothing to indicate that Dolly the Sheep was any different from any other sheep. So if we create humans who are no different from any other humans except that they were cloned, who’s to say that the clones are NOT human? They would, essentially, be no different from a natural identical twin.

Is a TWIN sub-human? Which of the twins is the human and which the sub-human?

The can of worms this opens is beyond trivializing as “they’re just clones”.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:59:49 +0000

Is there no depth of ethical depravity that these people will not sink to??? HEY Michael J. Fox, Now that we know the real purpose of Amendment 2 do you still think it is all about “cures”??? It’s all about the money Honey. If what she is saying is true and these biotech companies have their way Missouri would be financially devastated in a matter of years. This is a sad, sad state of affairs, these people who declare that they care for human life sooooo much really just care about the science. And what if they do start to make clones??? You will then have a permenant sub-human class that will have to be dealt with in every way envisioned. New laws will have to be passed, new ethical standards, new programs for “disposal” of these new sub-humans. What a damn mess.

I was talking to a friend last night and I told him my problem isn’t with science. It is with scientists that if a line is drawn, keep saying “Yeah, but what if we just cross it only this much”. Next thing you know you have to re-draw the line. It has become exasperating. I think we should pass a new law, that no more research money can be wasted on Embryonic Stem Cell Research until we cure aids or something else. Risk / Reward, that is how it works in the real world. Too many of these guys are just wrapped up in pushing the envelope. They have no care for the mayhem this might cause. – Lorica

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:35:35 +0000

Hi Little MC! Thanks for stopping by.

I have done so much research on this issue tonight that my head hurts. I am outright STUNNED at what the pro-Amendment 2 folks are trying to do there – they are lying through their teeth and getting away with it. This is one of the biggest political scams foisted upon the public I’ve come across in recent history, and it could have open the door for it happening in other states.

Please send me your essay via email – or the link to it in the paper. I’d love to read it.

By: Little Miss Chatterbox

Little Miss Chatterbox — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:12:31 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this and helping to spread the word. I just wrote an essay for my local paper on why I oppose this amendment. It endorses cloning and experimenting on human life. And Missourians have been lied to about it.