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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 04:04 PM
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In Utah it may soon be illegal for a woman to have a miscarriage.
Edited on Wed Feb-24-10 04:05 PM by Skidmore
http://jezebel.com/5479032/the-next-anti+choice-target-miscarriage


The Next Anti-Choice Target: Miscarriage

A new Utah law could charge women with homicide if they miscarry, making women's rights advocates concerned that women will be brought up on murder charges for drinking, failing to wear a seatbelt, or falling down the stairs.

The bill passed Utah's state legislature last Thursday and still needs final approval by the governor, but it continues to gain attention this week for its unusually restrictive language. It doesn't address legal abortion, but allows punishment up to life in prison for an "intentional, knowing, or reckless act" that leads to a miscarriage or abortion without a doctor's supervision. Especially concerning to some Utah Democrats and many women's rights activists is the word "reckless" — writing for RH Reality Check, Rachel Larris says,...

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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 04:06 PM
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1. You just discovered this story? n/t
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 04:08 PM
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3. Actually, yes. I did.
So what?
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 04:07 PM
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2. Women of Utah!
Edited on Wed Feb-24-10 04:08 PM by Warpy
Now is the time to start sending your fine legislators your used tampons and sanitary napkins so that they might determine whether or not you've broken the law by having a miscarriage! Their sense of justice demands this!

Let 'em have it, sisters!
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 04:23 PM
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5. Works for me. I hope that every single legislator in Utah gets to experience miscarriage personally
The females for themselves, and the men via their wives and daughters. Screw them all to hell.

Hekate

:argh:
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 04:08 PM
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4. Well, she better have an alibi at the very least.
/sarcasm

Heinous, heinous law.
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SPedigrees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 04:52 PM
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6. You couldn't pay me enough to even drive through this backward state
aka morman central.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 05:20 PM
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7. Gee shouldn't the woman legislatures in Utah take a page out of
those in Kansas and find some restrictive action concerning men only to make illegal. I think they should start with jailing men forever if they don't pay child support. Sentence them to a place that makes license plates and give their salaries to the mothers.
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