Quoted in whole from http://www.2tricky.org/greedy.htm:
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.
Amendment 2 will guarantee that no future Missouri law can limit the amount of public money poured into human-cloning research. If lawmakers in Jefferson City want to fund any disease research, they will be forced to give the cloners equal access to your tax dollars.
Biotech companies and universities are in a high-stakes race to develop and patent new ways of cloning people. These patents can generate tens of millions of dollars in royalties from other firms that follow in their footsteps. The University of Missouri already holds one such cloning patent. Some legal experts fear the University aims to patent the resulting human lives themselves.
The bottom line is that cloning is Big Business. Amendment 2's backers wouldn't spend $28.7 million to turn Missouri into the "Clone Me" state unless a much bigger windfall was at stake. And in the long run, every Missourian will pay part of it.
Missourians who don't want their tax dollars to fund ethically questionable research should vote "No" on Amendment 2.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
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