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while there's nothing you can't ask on the savage lovecast when miscarriages are a crime only criminals

will have miscarriages it's been a while since we kicked the shit out of utah let's get to it

a law passed by the utah house and Senate is sitting on the governor's desk

in Utah. Nobody found out about it until just last week. But the bill, well, I'm just going to read

from the news stories. A bill passed by the Utah House and Senate this week and waiting for

the governor's signature will make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage. In addition to

criminalizing an intentional attempt to induce a miscarriage or abortion, the bill creates a standard

that could make women legally responsible for miscarriages caused by reckless behavior. Using the legal

standard of reckless behavior, all a district attorney needs to show is that a woman behaved in a

manner that is thought to cause miscarriage, even if she did not intend miscarriage. reckless behavior. All a district attorney needs to show is that a woman behaved in a manner

that is thought to cause miscarriage, even if she did not intend to lose the pregnancy.

Okay, where to begin unpacking that. Who knew that unintentional, self-induced, reckless or malicious miscarriages were a huge problem in Utah, but apparently they are?

The governor signs this insane bill into law. A woman in Utah who accidentally induces a miscarriage can be charged with criminal homicide and sentenced to life in prison.

Now, what's really bad shit about this is if you're going to enshrine in law the idea that every miscarriage is a potential homicide, just as every death is a potential homicide, which is why we have to investigate every death.

How does Utah avoid launching a criminal investigation every time a woman has a miscarriage?

And women have a lot of miscarriages, one in four pregnancies and in miscarriage.

And how is Utah supposed to know when a woman whose pregnant has had a miscarriage

unless Utah is keeping track of all pregnant women?

And since a lot of women have miscarriages without even realizing they're pregnant,

how is Utah supposed to keep track of all those fetuses and all those potential

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