Missouri appeals court looks at stem cell ballot

March 27, 2008

The 2006 amendment approved by voters made it a crime to “clone or attempt to clone a human being.” But it allowed a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer as long as a cloned embryo is not implanted in a woman’s uterus.

The ballot initiative being proposed this year would ban somatic cell nuclear transfer, which opponents claim destroys a cloned human being when stem cells are removed from the embryo. (Columbia Missourian)