Amendment 2 Kills Life Sciences Building Project in MO
Missouri's universities will not have a life sciences building project funded due to the potential that the buildings would be used to conduct human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. While the media rails against cloning opponents, the real fault lies with the authors of Amendment 2. Not satisfied to just create a constitutional right to engage in human cloning research in Missouri, the authors also put in a non-discrimination clause, requiring that funding for any kind of stem cell research would also require funding of the embryonic variety.
Opponents felt that a law permitting the buildings to be built and limiting them to ethical stem cell research would be declared unconstitutional due to Amendment 2. They were right. So the whole project went down in flames.
Labels: Amendment 2
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 10:01 AM
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The University of Missouri-Columbia is now in line for about $50 million to upgrade the Ellis Fischel Cancer Hospital. Over $40 million has been redirected to other projects around the state.
My sources tell me that Missouri Right to Life still opposes the bill because it wants Amendment 2 overturned before spending any money from the sale of MOHELA (Mo. Higher Education Loan Authority) assets.
A bill to rescind Amendment 2 and ban SCNT is currently tied up in a House committee.
I believe Rep. Lembke is going to try to get the bill to the floor via a parliamentary maneuver.
Thanks for the update.
why does everyone have to dick around with a good thing? ASCR = not a friggin problem, ESCR = friggin' problem, so just leave the two of them alone. If you have to piggy-back your ideas on something else that's legitimate and nobody minds, then your research isn't good, is potentially hurtful, and you're not man enough to face down your detractors. Cowards hide behind something else that's innocuous.
Real men meet you head on and stand by their ideas without resorting to trickery. And they respect the fact that other people will sometimes come out ahead of them (ASCR is non-controversial, so it comes out ahead of ESCR), give a nod in their direction, and move on with their lives.
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