On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Beating someone until she miscarries was illegal before this measure. >> >> Before it was just assault. > > Which is illegal.
My bad, it's not assault if you ask someone to do it to you. So it was a legal form of abortion. >> Or what a woman can pay a thug to do to her body. > > Or we could make it easy to let a woman terminate an unwanted > pregnancy without anyone beating anyone up. While you're writing the laws for Utah why not legalize marijuana? >> Isn't that a Mormon state? > > What does Utah having a number of Mormons have to do with anything? > South Dakota takes much the same attitude toward reproductive freedom > and as far as I'm aware, they don't have an abnormal percentage of > Mormons. A state known for it's Mormon population and a few ski resorts is likely to have laws based on what the population wants, not what you think. As long as they don't violate federal laws. I know nothing about SD laws or why they matter here. > Crap like this is a fundamental plank in the national Republican > platform. Utah just has a lead implementing it. I don't look as Utah as a plank in the GOP, just a state that knows freedom of religion is safe within that party. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312679 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
