By AP/KWMU
Jefferson City, MO. – A lawsuit has been brought in an attempt to block a stem cell initiative from appearing on the Missouri ballot.
The Alliance Defense Fund says it has sued Secretary of State Robin Carnahan to try to prevent the measure from going before voters in 2006.
The group claims the title of the proposed ballot measure is deceptive for claiming to ban human cloning.
The proposal bans attempts to create a human by placing a cloned embryo in a woman. But it allows therapeutic cloning, in which the nucleus of an egg is replaced with one from an adult patient. The egg then is stimulated to grow in a lab dish and the resulting stem cells are removed.
Opponents contend therapeutic cloning results in the creation and destruction of human life. Supporters deny that.