comments_image Comments  Utah Miscarriage Law Reduces Women to
Fetus Incubators  Anti-choicers' plan is to make legal abortion
inaccessible and criminalize everything else. What's the point
of Roe v Wade if women can't get abortions?   • submit to reddit
• submit to reddit  Last week, Utah governor Gary Herbert 
signed into law Utah HB 462, known ignominiously as "the
miscarriage bill". It was a reworked version of the original
bill, introduced by Republican State Representative Carl D
Wimmer, adjusted to address criticisms that the initial language
"could have got women sent away for lifelong prison terms for
falling down stairs or staying in an abusive relationship". The
revised version "designates the 'intentional or knowing'
miscarriage as criminal homicide" and "stipulates that a woman
can be charged with homicide for 'the death of her unborn
child', unless the death qualifies as legal abortion".  Thus are
the women of Utah left with a new law that criminalizes illegal
abortion in a state that increasi