Anti-Cures Crowd: "Pay No Notice to Our Notice"

The rolling disaster that is the anti-cures campaign is at it again.

First they drafted their initiative petition to deny "human" status to Missourians with Down Syndrome.

Then they botched their refiled petition by requiring signers to publicly disclose their email addresses to the government.

Next they failed to file required campaign finance reports until told to do so by the Ethics Commission.  But those reports only showed $20.34 raised, nothing spent and were described as purposefully false by the group's Illinois politician spokesman.

Now they are complaining about the ballot wording the Secretary of State's Office has  provided for their first, second, third initiative petition filing.

The Rut Roe crowd is angry that the ballot wording describes their proposal as "repealing" portions of the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative (Art III, Sec 38(d) of the Constitution), approved by voters last year.

Yet their own proposal tells reader to take official notice of that fact.  Here it is in its entirety:

NOTICE: You are advised that the proposed constitutional amendment may change, repeal, or modify by implication, or may be construed by some persons to change, repeal or modify by implication, Article III, Sections 36 and 38(d), Article IV, Sections 23 and 28, and Article X, Sections 1, 2, and 3, of the Missouri Constitution. (emphasis added)

The Anti-Cures crowd also complains that their proposal doesn't ban any cures.  Yet, by banning a promising stem cell technique currently allowed under Missouri law, they would forever prevent doctors from using that technique  to cure their patients.

It remains to be seen what the group will do next, but one thing is for sure: it will be done poorly.