A Cole County judge upheld ballot summary language put forward by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan to describe a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at the funding of embryonic stem cell research and abortion services. Earlier this year, a St. Louis ...

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President Barack Obama’s decision to lift funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research sparked a war of words between opposing sides of a proposal targeting state funding for the practice. Before Obama signed an executive order on Monday, federal funds ...

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A group aiming to add funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and abortion services into the state’s constitution filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the secretary of state’s ballot language. The Missouri Roundtable for Life had put forward a ...

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