The Elliot Institute, directed by anti-abortion activist David Reardon, and the ”Coalition to Regulate Human Engineering and Human-Animal Crossbreeding” (which is the Elliot Institute and the Life Issues Institute) have put an initiative on the November 2006 ballot to amend the Missouri constitution to ban transgenics, cloning and human genetic engineering. The initiative is called “Regulation of Human-Animal Crossbreeds, Cloning, Transhumanism, and Human Engineering Is Reserved to the People.” As resources on the the “mad scientists” that they want to stop they link to the IEET, the IEET’s Journal on Evolution and Technology, the World Transhumanist Association, Reason magazine, Peter Singer, and Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.
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