Utah is not a state known for its legislative sanity. This, after all, is a state that recently made headlines for proposing to honor gun manufacturers on Martin Luther King Day and for considering the elimination of 12th grade to cut back on education spending.
Well, it just got a whole lot worse.
Utah just became the first state in the U.S. to criminalize miscarriage and punish women for having or seeking an illegal abortion. Utah's "Criminal Miscarriage" law:expands the definition of illegal abortion to include miscarriages removes immunity protections for women who have or seek illegal abortions treats women as presumptive criminals and leaves them open to criminal prosecution.
Utah is a state known for it's deeply religious population and government representatives, so this is somewhat of a shock - meaning that these people are criminalizing what they would often see as the "will of God".
Aside from that, I'm not surprised in the least that a state as backwards as Utah would further the reality that conservativism despises women. This new law makes that reality all the more apparent.
This leads me to ask this question again - how can a woman be a conservative? I've ask the same in reference to blacks, gays, and lesbians, and each time I can't find the answer. Never-the-less, all these people can be found within the conservative movement, some even staunchly defending everything done in the name of conservative ideology, even at their own peril.
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I would gladly believe in Hell if they'd promise those people would wind up there.
Also, do they realize how many miscarriages happen? Many women miscarry early in their pregnancy, often before they realize they are pregnant. Do those count too?
I have a feeling this will be like sodomy laws; they will only be enforced as add-on crimes.
It is really sickening what this country is up to/for some days.
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