Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce on Feb. 13 declared ballot language prepared by the Secretary of State’s Office for a proposed constitutional amendment to ban stem cell research to be “insufficient and unfair” and imposed new language. For similar reasons, another Cole County judge last month invalidated the secretary of state’s ballot language on a proposed initiative to ban state and local affirmative action programs.
The stem cell proposal would effectively repeal a constitutional amendment Missouri voters narrowly ratified in 2006 that prohibits the state from outlawing forms of stem cell research that are legal under federal law and specifically declare such research illegal. Supporters of the current effort still need to collect signatures from registered voters to place the measure on the November 2008 ballot.
The stem cell proposal would effectively repeal a constitutional amendment Missouri voters narrowly ratified in 2006 that prohibits the state from outlawing forms of stem cell research that are legal under federal law and specifically declare such research illegal. Supporters of the current effort still need to collect signatures from registered voters to place the measure on the November 2008 ballot.
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