the Gov. of Utah is religiously insane

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http://www.alternet.org/rights/145956/controversial_utah_law_charges_women_and_girls_with_murder_for_miscarriages_


Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging Women and Girls With Murder for Miscarriages

Critics are worried the law will open up a Pandora's box of unintended legal consequences.


On Monday afternoon, a controversial Utah bill that charges pregnant women and girls with murder for having miscarriages caused by "intentional or knowing" acts, was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert.
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this is so outrageous and stupid words fail.

as an american I am ashamed to admit Utah is one of our States.

[Speck Tater]

1. Can we vote to kick Utah off the island? nt

[roguevalley]

11. probably unconstitutional or will be when the governor's mistress

spontaneously combusts from carrying the spawn of satan. (I don't know if he has one but you *know* he does. Probably.)

[Mz Pip]

2. Intent will be

tough to prove. Witnesses would be hard to come by, I would think.

[HeresyLives]

3. This effectively bans abortion.

They are just substituting another word for it, and in fact broadening the number of people who can be charged..

A 'miscarriage' is a 'spontaneous abortion'.

[madmom]

4. Well there's another state on my list of "do not visit or support in any way".

[CanonRay]

5. Let's start a movement to kick Utah out of the Union

Forced secession!

[Froward69]

6. If it weren't for Utah I would go to Nevada or Cali

more often.

Gas up in Grand junction CO and try to get across without speaking to anyone.

[Bitwit1234]

7. You should have expected it...they elected Hatch

[Umbral]

8. Gary Herbert's father, desperate to keep his son from wrecking his real estate business...

launched his career in politics, and foisted him onto the backs of Utah County residents as a Commissioner. Utah County, desperate to keep Herbert from wrecking the already shaky edifice of its government (and hopefully ending his career gracefully), foisted him on the backs of all Utahans as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Obama, desperate to impose some misguided notion of bipartisanship, appoints Utah's relatively moderate Governor to an ambassadorship, thus securing Herbert the top position in Utah government. A position he's likely to hold for at least one more election cycle.

Nothing succeeds like failure, if you're a Republican.

[Initech]

9. Mars was a vast, uninhabitable wasteland, much like Utah.

Although unlike Utah it was eventually made liveable.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. There's no way in hell this won't be blown to smithereens by the SCOTUS, is it? -nt

[BR_Parkway]

12. It ain't just the Governor