Missouri Coalition Forms to Back Human Cloning, Stem Cell Research

A new coalition of groups in Missouri has formed to back embryonic stem cell research and oppose bills in the state legislature that would curtail the practice of human cloning.

Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures features 60 different organizations including the American Diabetes Association, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and Washington University in St. Louis.

The coalition will oppose HB 457 and SB 160, which prohibit all forms of human cloning, including cloning to create human embryos to be destroyed in research.

"The proposed legislation is a misguided attempt to ban somatic cell nuclear transfer by defining it as 'human cloning,'" said Dr. William Neaves, President and CEO of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, one of the Missouri research facilities that is conducting embryonic stem cell research.

•	Missouri Coalition Forms to Back Human Cloning, Stem Cell Research LifeNews.com (Montana), Friday, Feb. 11, 2005 Byline: Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor

•	Coalition forms to support stem-cell research in Missouri LATEST NEWS St. Louis Business Journal, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005 Byline: NO BYLINE

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