CMo boycott state #3: Utah
As the scAlito reverberations are felt, Utah’s feeling the misogynistic lurve as they get to work on the Incest Perpetrators Rights Act. Utah’s only a half step away from enacting Sharia law, people.
“There is a life inside of this life. And how that life is taken care of is very important to me,” said Sen. Darin Peterson, R-Nephi.
Current Utah law – which was adopted in 1974 – requires doctors to notify a girl’s parents before ending her pregnancy. HB85, sponsored by Ogden Republican Rep. Kerry Gibson and Peterson, would change state code to require doctors to get at least one parent’s permission 24 hours before the procedure. Doctors could proceed without consent in medical emergencies or to protect the health of the mother.
The bill would allow girls to ask a judge to bypass the parental consent requirement if she fears abuse or is pregnant as a result of incest. At the same time, the legislation still would require a doctor to notify a girl’s parents of the abortion, effectively nullifying the judicial bypass.
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Salt Lake City Democratic Sen. Scott McCoy tried to amend the bill Monday to grant an exception to the notification requirement in “very narrow situations” where a girl’s father also is the father of her baby.Peterson argued that parental notification “hasn’t been a problem” for 30 years. Why would notification after a judicial bypass be a problem? “What we’re trying to do is allow a parent a say in what happens in this youth’s life,” he said.
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Senators rejected the amendment on a voice vote.
The GOP has made it very clear that they believe that a woman’s rights end when she has sex. Thanks, Christianity! What a healthy and balanced outlook your dogma has inspired.
And to think, I spent a few formative years of my life growing up in that shitty fucking state.
For the record, NARAL and Planned Parenthood, both of whom continue to support Joe “traitor” Lieberman and Lincoln Chaffee and who were completely absent during the crucial scAlito debates are also on the boycott list. Not one penny to quislings who sell out their constituency. Why the hell would anyone give money to a women’s group that supports taking away the rights of women?