Republican Rep. Carl Wimmer will modify the legislation he’s introduced into the Utah legislature, removing language that could subject to prosecution for criminal homicide, a mother who miscarries because of ‘reckless behavior’.

Only Utah’s more enlightened governor Gary Herbert’s refusal to sign the legislation prevents it from becoming law in Utah.

No, this is not the Taliban talking in Afghanistan. This is Utah, in the United States of America. In Mexico, some states have passsed legislation putting women in prison for 50 years for having an abortion in a country where abortion is also legal. Months later, we see the possibility in action in the US.

Some people don’t believe that American women shouldn’t be charged for having a miscarriage. They argue that the burden of proof is on the women to prove that she wasn’t negligent during her pregnancy. The original language in Wimmer’s bill did criminalize iscarriage, in the most aggressive move against American women yet.

Any husband or the state could prosecute a woman who was negligent in his eyes, or a mother-in-law or sister’s eyes — really anyone — for any behavior that theoretically triggered a miscarriage. Presumably any husband who believed that his wife behaved irresponsibly in any way, thus inducing a miscarriage as if it’s typically a woman’s fault, could put her in jail for many years.

The state and her husband are in charge of a woman’s body in Utah. Woman is the incubator, nothing more, among Utah politicians. She might as well be a cow. Individual rights don’t belong to women in Utah, but to an embryo or fetus.

Any American woman of any age should think twice about accepting a job in the state of Utah.

In 1991 Utah banned all abortions, even though the law was basically unconstitutional and unenforceable because of Roe vs Wade, the US Supreme Court’s ruling that women are entitles to a safe abortion in America. Getting a legal abortion in Utah remains extremely difficult. Here are the procedures.

Factually-speaking, Wimmer’s new bill is aimed at preventing an isolated case of one woman who paid someone to beat her up, in hopes of having a miscarriage.

Both the House and Senate passed Wimmer’s original bill and the governor has until Monday to sign it, so the Legislature will be moving quickly to try to get the revised bill to Herbert’s desk by then.

One wonders if American women will every wake up to what’s actually going on in this country, before it’s too late.

I will not keep quiet and unopinionated on the total erosion of women’s rights that’s going on in this country. In the 70s, we would have been marching in the streets. Today, women just sit silent, leaving me clueless as to whether they will ever again stand up for their own rights.

I have no vision for the future of women in this country, exept that men and fundamentalist thinking will determine what we are allowed to be. This news in Utah jolts me to the core of my being. I feel like I am in Afghanistan and burqas are coming soon to Utah.

Just remember, ladies, that Utah is the top state in the country for consumption of subscription pornography. Based on their IP addresses for paid porn subscriptions: the biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users.

While these men are determined to legally control every aspect of a woman’s body, they’re having a fine time watching pornography. This is hypocrisy in its worst form. Anne via Salt Lake City Tribune.

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