Utah bill reduces women to incubators

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/mar/16/utah-miscarriage-bill-abortion

t's already hard to get an abortion in Utah. Now a new bill opens the door to prosecuting women who 'intentionally' miscarry

o Melissa McEwan
o guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 March 2010 14.30 GMT

Last week, Utah governor Gary Herbert signed into law Utah HB 462, known ignominiously as "the miscarriage bill". It was a reworked version of the original bill, introduced by Republican State Representative Carl D Wimmer, adjusted to address criticisms that the initial language "could have got women sent away for lifelong prison terms for falling down stairs or staying in an abusive relationship". The revised version "designates the 'intentional or knowing' miscarriage as criminal homicide" and "stipulates that a woman can be charged with homicide for 'the death of her unborn child', unless the death qualifies as legal abortion".

Thus are the women of Utah left with a new law that criminalises illegal abortion in a state that increasingly discourages legal abortions.

You can't toss an incubator into the pokey if it malfunctions. And a hospital or clinic would probably spend good money to have an incubator fixed. Women are now held to be of lower value than incubators in Utah.

of the mother. Then, they dance.

One thing we CAN do is write the Utakh State chamber of Commerce
and/or Tourist Board and let them know why we will not be vacationing, visiting
or holding conferences in that state.
They get enough letters, it WILL make an impact.

The place was so creepy, I've never been back.