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Team Turk on Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:46:29 PM
Kansas City Star spotlights
stem cell factions.
You want stars? We’ve got stars, opponents of Missouri’s proposed embryonic stem-cell research amendment seemed to say Wednesday.
A movie star, a TV star, sports stars — all to be displayed in front of the state’s World Series audience.
One of the athletes featured in a new 60-second commercial opposing Amendment 2: St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jeff Suppan, who was scheduled to start game four Wednesday night. The ad was supposed to air during the game, which was postponed because of rain.
Kansas City Royals player Mike Sweeney and former St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner also advocate defeat of the proposed amendment, which would prohibit state legislative interference in any federally allowed stem-cell research.
The new ad comes days after the airing of a controversial commercial featuring actor Michael J. Fox in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race. In the commercial, Fox endorses Democrat Claire McCaskill, largely because of her support for Amendment 2.