Missouri is beginning to feel the folly of passing Amendment 2. One of the law’s provisions prevented the legislature from refusing to fund embryonic stem cell/human cloning research, if other areas of stem cell research is financed. I warned that this would force the legislature to either fund ESCR/cloning against its will, or refuse to fund stem cell research at all. This seems to be the cause of the refusal of the legislature to fund $300 million for building stem cell research facilities at a state university. Expect such contentiousness to continue in coming years as ESC/cloning advocates continue to try and push for Missouri to pay for their research, and its opponents continue to resist.
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…