Posted on 03/29/2016 5:51:50 AM PDT by Morgana
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The governor signed a bill Monday that makes Utah the first state to require doctors to give anesthesia to women having an abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later.
The bill signed by Republican Gov. Gary Herbert is based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain at that point.
"The governor is adamantly pro-life. He believes in not only erring on the side of life, but also minimizing any pain that may be caused to an unborn child," Herbert spokesman Jon Cox said.
Many doctors in Utah and across the country are concerned that the requirement could increase the health risks to women by giving them unnecessary heavy sedation in order to protect a fetus from pain that it may or may not feel.
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What difference does it make...
They have abortions in Utah!?
what a kind man..
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of course their Mormon religious literature doesn’t ban them...
its up to the local bishop to “pray” to his Mormon gods to see if the woman should murder her unborn child or not...
He believes in not only erring on the side of life, but also minimizing any pain that may be caused to an unborn child,”
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do which is it ???
is he pro-life or just pro-painless death ???
My son dated a Mormon girl. Her parents did everything they could to break up the relationship including shipping her off to Utah. They don't drink and have a very strict life. But I suppose if while in college...
They don’t drink
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but they probably kept a well stocked liquor cabinet for their friends who did...
that’s how Willard M Romney got the booze when he was a teenager...
From his own father’s stash..
George Romney was a good host...
Why not pass a law requiring they anesthetize the abortionist?
I was so glad when they broke up. I spend a lot of time exhorting him as to the foolishness of their doctrine about God(s).
Is there a Gov. around that doesn’t live off the Government in D.C.? No, and this Gov. is not exception...
I don’t know if the Mormons believe in abortion or not, seems they wouldn’t, but who knows what those people believe in...
I know it’s not end of the war here, but let’s take our battle victories where we can. I see this as two good things:
1) It makes it more difficult for an abortionist to ply his trade. Anesthesiology is very highly regulated, and insurance is costly.
2) It recognizes that babies in the womb feel pain, that they are human, not blobs of tissue.
There, a little more truthful, Utah.
I think this is admirable if he’s adamantly pro-life, as the article claims. The way I see it, a pro-life governor certainly doesn’t have the authority to ban abortions by decree, and most likely does not have the support in the legislature to do so either.
One way to gain support for pro life positions may be to raise public awareness of the issue of whether a fetus can feel pain, and signing this bill does just that.
The way I see it, a pro-life governor certainly doesn’t have the authority to ban abortions by decree, and most likely does not have the support in the legislature to do so either.
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except the legislature in Utah is controlled by the Mormon religion...
if the Mormons wanted legislation to ban abortions to pass it would...
I wasn’t defending Mormonism or the Utah legislature, I was defending a pro-life Governor for signing this bill, and suggesting a possibly motivation for doing so that was admirable, from a pro-life standpoint.
By your comment (paraphrasing) “pro life, or just anti painful death? it seemed you were suggesting the governor was taking a weak position, not a true pro life position.
So I was saying that if a stronger pro-life options were not available to the governor, he could do worse than to raise public awareness of the fact that a fetus can experience pain, by signing the anesthesia bill.
Well, if there’s someone I want making medical decisions, it’s the Government. Yay.
“Many doctors in Utah and across the country are concerned that the requirement could increase the health risks to women by giving them unnecessary heavy sedation in order to protect a fetus from pain that it may or may not feel.”
“It”? No bias there.
Ping
Two good things, two cuts on the abortion business behemoth.
The only way we are going to get rid of the abomination that is abortion is the Death By A Thousand Cuts strategy.
Enough small cuts will weaken the beast enough that at some future date it can either be outlawed or so highly regulated that abortions will be “rare and safe”.
Hopefully nonexistent.
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