Utah Lawmakers Want to Go Backwards on Choice

Sorted under anti-choice extremism, reproductive rights on October 7, 2008

Utah has big plans for women in 2009–Big, big plans regarding women and how they want control over their bodies. Marvelous.

Several conservative (umm…really?) Utah state lawmakers will be sponsoring anti-choice legislation in the 2009 legislative session to ban abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or endangerment of maternal health. Why is this? Well, Utah state lawmakers do not believe that women in Utah should have responsibility over their bodies nor do they believe that women really know what is best for them. I mean, come on, who knows more about how a woman would feel after an abortion, the woman or a group of men who will never be pregnant or have an abortion in their lifetime?

Stephen Sandstrom, (who I am willing to bet has a penis and cannot get pregnant) a primary supporter of the new proposal, said:

“Our hope is that the Supreme Court might make this into a state’s rights issue….I’ve spoken to legislators from twelve other states who are ready to jump on board if this goes through. If we can have Utah lead the way, that would be wonderful.”

Hear that? Utah just doesn’t think women are smart or capable enough to make their own decisions, but the legislators in twelve other states believe that they should also have rights over women! So apparently, what Utah aims to do is lead the way in bringing back alley abortions into women’s lives again. They want to lead the way in telling women “Um, no, that zygote inside of you has more rights than you do, now go home and pick up some cookie dough on your way there!” They want to lead the way in more women of their state dying because they did not have access to safe and legal abortions. They want to lead the way in states telling their women that the rights they once had don’t mean shit.

You know what would truly be wonderful? If men stayed out of reproductive rights issues.



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  • Utah lawmakers are not really exist, am i right?
  • There is always some hullabaloo about abortion in the Utah legislature but it has never left committee as far as I know. These people are pretty crazy even by Utah's unique standards!
  • Rob
    To say that someone has to have the ability to get pregnant to have any credibility on the issue of abortion is wrong. I happen to be very moderate on the issue, but I know many who are strongly against abortion. To them, it is a matter of life and death... That is something that trancends gender, race, nationality, etc.
  • I actually live in Utah but I haven't heard of this. I agree that women should have control over their own bodies. On a different note, I don't like that Palin is against abortion, even in the case of RAPE. Personally, I think each pregnancy is a personal issue that cannot be dealt with by general laws. There are different circumstances for everyone.
  • Alyssa
    Amen.
    Grrr, it makes me so furious. Men still wish to just control 'their' women.
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