I Don't Want To Remember This

[redbrunja]

 Utah criminalizes miscarriage.

I have no words.

Beyond commenting on how desperate someone must be to pay someone to beat her, and how horrible it must be to have no other options. ($175 is cheaper than an abortion).

Also, how craven it is to beat a pregnant seventeen year for money.

I just... I am just horrified about this whole situation.

Comments

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Making miscarriages a crime won't actually affect the rate, but it will traumatize a lot of women who genuinely wanted to be mothers as every detail of their diet and behaviour for the previous six months or so is reviewed for any sign that they can be blamed for it.

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

I have a few words.

Fucking SCUMBAGS!!!

Women are people, not just goddamn sperm receptacles.

Congratulations fucking Utah, you're now giving women no more respect than they had in the middle ages. You know, that time period when women could be accused of witchcraft when they miscarried their sons.

This is why democracy will inevitably fail. When majority rules and the majority consists of closed minded, sexist, dogmatic assclowns, douchebag decisions like this are FUCKING INEVITABLE. We're all screwed.

[iapetusneume.livejournal.com]

When I saw that link, I saw red. Because all I could think of was my neighbor who had a miscarriage several months ago. She and her husband were ready to try for a second child (their first is 4 years old), and she was in her first trimester. I asked her how she and the baby were doing, when she started crying. She had had the miscarriage the day before.

You know, even when a woman is doing everything right and wants the baby, she can still have a miscarriage. It's part of nature, and it's most likely to happen in the first trimester. I think it is criminal to try to make a law where "some cases" would be murder, because it leaves way too much gray area for people to play around in and hurt others.

[darkelf19.livejournal.com]

The first thing that comes to mind is simply, WTF?!

That Utah has been allowed to corner its female population into forced reproduction is outrageous! The reason abortions aren't illegal is to prevent back-alley abortions and other methods which are rarely successful without extensive and sometimes permanent damage to the woman. Had she simply been allowed to exercise her right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy then her suffering and any possible repercussions such a beating could inflict on the child.

Now to charge a woman with murder is she miscarries is....well fuck! This is why it is imperative that the US Constitution be amended to include woman's rights for more than just "the vote". Until we stand up for ourselves and let our government know we will no longer be treated as 2nd class citizens and incubators, we can only expect this to get worse.

The first woman prosecuted under this new law needs to sue Utah and bring her case to the Supreme Court so that this law can be abolished and insure that such a monstrosity never occurs again.

[obsessive0514.livejournal.com]

It's... I... I knew about this already, but still, just... FUCK.
Seriously, not even thinking about the abortions for a second, MISCARRIAGES?!?!

My mother's third pregnancy, when I was three, resulted in a miscarriage. When women who wanted to have the baby have a miscarriage, no matter what caused it, it can be devastating. My mom still gets emotional talking about it. And now, what, women in Utah who have miscarriages are going to be INVESTIGATED? To determine if "reckless behavior" caused it? NOT WHAT THESE WOMEN FUCKING NEED. Especially if they already blame themselves.

And the fact that this bill doesn't allow exceptions for victims of domestic violence is just fucking disgusting.

[devimelete.livejournal.com]

I have a headache.

Now I have a bigger one just by reading this.

God. What a fuck-up.

[meitah.livejournal.com]

I saw a good documentary about abortion a while ago called Lake of Fire. It has a slight pro-choice bias, but both sides get roughly the same amount of screentime and the bias might just be me looking for what I want to see.

Am I the only one who thinks that it's no coincidence that the groups who oppose abortion, contraception and sexual education are the groups with the highest incidence of teen pregnancy and abortion?

[yukitheawesome.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even get through the whole article. Just…just…what???

I really hate how stupid people can be.

[cynchick.livejournal.com]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but this is Utah, and I see a blatant issue of Mormon principles versus non. Things like this (and like comments about Haiti being damned, etc.) seriously compromise my religious tolerance.