The term "clone" has been redefined for this amendment. Here are key phrases:
Section 38(d). 1. This section shall be known as the “ Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.”
(1) No person may clone or attempt to clone a human being.
6. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) “Blastocyst” means a small mass of cells that results from cell division, caused either by fertilization or somatic cell nuclear transfer, that has not been implanted in a uterus.
(2) “Clone or attempt to clone a human being” means to implant in a uterus or attempt to implant in a uterus anything other than the product of fertilization of an egg of a human female by a sperm of a human male for the purpose of initiating a pregnancy that could result in the creation of a human fetus, or the birth of a human being.
source: http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2006petitions/ppStemCell.asp
Exactly. It's semantics.
As far as I'm concerned it doesn't change the fact that whether or not the replicated cells are ever implanted into a uterus and allowed to grow the fact remains that the embryos will be replicated. Or CLONED. The fact that they COULD be implanted and allowed to grow into a living, breathing, human PERSON is enough. The potential is there and therefore it should not be done.