[Dave S]

This amendment does NOTHING that is not already being allowed to do.

And probably wouldnt be needed if the Republicans hadnt gone goofy over Terry Schiavo. Now it's easy to believe a bunch of pols in Jefferson City, beholden to their most conservative members, would pass any law if James Dobson told them to. By restricting Medicaid payments to any hospital using any treatment using embryonic stem cells it could effectively prevent those treatments from being used in the state.

If I eventually decide to vote against this ammendment it wont be because of any moral qualm, it will be because citizens of the state should have the balls to vote idiots out of office if they attempted to pass restrictive laws in Missouri rather than mess around with the constitution.

[Just mythoughts]

Wait a minute you are upset that Republicans took issue over a county judge taking power unto himself to pronounce a death sentence upon a woman based upon unprovable claims???

And then in the same instant applaud the altering of a Constitution because it suits YOUR purpose?

I don't answer to James Dobson nor do I seek his counsel, my objection to the death sentence rendered unto Terry Schiavo was because her heart was beating and continued to beat without any kind of mechanical assistance. That is until the government decided it was dehydration and starvation was her just reward.

Who has restricted Medicaid payments anywhere? It is the best health-care system we taxpayers can provide, at the same time we pay those high dollar insurance premiums for our own personal care.

[XenaLee]

Scuse me? I'm not a Republican, but I sure as hell was NOT in favor of making an innocent woman starve slowly to death at the behest of her adulterous (and possibly abusive) spouse and assisted by the leftist DemRats in Florida. If that makes me ""goofy"" in YOUR estimation, I'll damned sure take that hit!~

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And probably wouldnt be needed if the Republicans hadnt gone goofy over Terry Schiavo.

[cinives]

You clearly have no idea what this amendment is. Check your facts.

Amendment 2 would provide for the legality of cloning humans, and as such would certainly make the MS legislature appropriate tax dollars to fund the research.

It's a MS constitutional amendment trying to be passed by the Dems, not conservatives. You need to understand an issue before you spout off about it.

[StAnDeliver]

"And probably wouldnt be needed if the Republicans hadnt gone goofy over Terry [sic] Schiavo."

I would rather crawl over broken glass to support a bunch of 'goofy' 'Republicans' when it comes to the First Conservative Rule : Preserve Life. Dobson had little to do with our opposition to starving Terri -- she was a Catholic, and that's where her supported eminated.

As for the Starvation Nation, they had the Democratic Socialists of American caucus standing with them front and center.