You have 'fiscal Republicans' who see this differently from the social conservatives, ... You have a gleeful media and gleeful Democrats who have found a wedge issue and are trying to exploit it. Here we are, sitting in the conservative Midwest, and I can't get this through the legislature. It's an intriguing, baffling political situation.

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Location isn't what makes it a human being, ... These researchers want to develop embryos and fetuses and do whatever they want to them as long as they are outside the womb.

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This petition asks Missourians to peg Missouri constitutional law to what some federal judge in San Francisco or New York says it is, ... I'm stunned that they would include such a wide-open and obvious flaw.

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Without a doubt this law will be challenged in court.

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I believe that a human embryo is worthy of legal protection, ... Western medicine has been founded on a principle: First, do no harm.

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And I think the reason is because he has a reputation as being a good mediator and that his good-natured approach to life serves him well in trying to chart a course between warring parties, both of whom have lots to lose.

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