Katarina Nolte (posts 500-999)

Life for Miscarriage: Utah Misogynyst Pedophiles’ 2010 Witch Hunts

“A proposed Utah law that would open women who suffer a miscarriage to possible criminal prosecution and life imprisonment has enraged feminists and civil rights activists across the United States.

Adopted overwhelmingly by both sides of the state legislature in Salt Lake City earlier this month, the draft bill is now awaiting the signature of the state’s Republican Governor, Gary Herbert.

While the main thrust of the law is to enable prosecutors in the majority-Mormon state to pursue women who seek illegal, unsupervised forms of abortion, it includes a provision that could trigger murder charges against women found guilty of an “intentional, knowing or reckless act” that leads to a miscarriage.

Some say this could include drinking one glass of wine too many, walking on an icy pavement or skiing.

Lawmakers were responding to the case of a 17-year-old pregnant Utah woman who paid a man $150 to assault her physically in the hope that the beating would cause her to miscarry.

The child was born anyway and put up for adoption.

And while the man involved is currently behind bars, prosecutors found they had no basis in state law to prosecute the young woman.
She was in her seventh month when she tried to terminate her pregnancy.

Statistics suggest that 15 to 20 per cent of recognised pregnancies end in miscarriage.

“This creates a law that makes any pregnant woman who has a miscarriage potentially criminally liable for murder,” said Missy Bird, director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Utah…

… the bill has no exemptions for women who suffer domestic abuse or who have addiction problems.

Abortion remains deeply contentious in the United States, where, with some restrictions, it has been legal under the terms of the landmark Roe v Wade ruling by the Supreme Court of 1973.”

Independent: Utah Women May Face Murder Charges After Miscarriages

Crooks and Liars: Utah Has Now Made Miscarriage A Criminal Offense

“State lawmakers in both the Utah House and Senate have approved a bill that would bring charges of homicide against pregnant women who arrange to have their unborn child killed through illegal methods.

Republican Senator Margaret Dayton, a co-sponsor of the bill, pointed out that the legislation addresses the specific instance of women directly procuring the death of their child, outside the legal abortion limits.”

Life Site News: Utah Lawmakers Approve Bill Prosecuting Women

Senator Margaret Dayton:
- opposed the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
- opposes having a standardized education
- opposes the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program because of its … lack of state control
- “I don’t want to create ‘world citizens’…”
- parents should have control over what is taught in schools
- “The traditional family is the fundamental unit of our society”
- “Government should provide only those services that cannot be provided by individuals or private organizations”

Freedom Speaks: Margaret Dayton

“Utah lawmakers have just passed a bill that would charge a woman with criminal homicide for obtaining an illegal abortion or inducing a miscarriage, whether intentionally or through “reckless” behavior.

… the law holds women accountable for criminal homicide if they intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly “cause the death of another human being, including an unborn child at any stage of its development,” outside the parameters of legal abortion.

… Utah lawmakers found it unjust that this desperate girl was not sent to prison.

… the terms of the bill are so subjective that a woman could theoretically be charged for criminal homicide if she:
- fails to wear a seat-belt
- gets in a car accident and suffers a miscarriage
- uses legal or illegal drugs and the baby is stillborn
- carries multiples as a result of fertility treatment, and one or more of the babies die
- remains with a partner whom she knows to be abusive, and suffers a miscarriage after he beats her particularly violently

National Advocates for Pregnant Women:
“Once the state has the power to decide what a women’s “intent” is, it does not really matter what her intent actually is.”
Giving police and prosecutors such enormous discretion to decide who will and will not be arrested and charged under this law…”

Women’s Rights: Utah’s New Abortion Law

Free Republic: Proposed Utah Law

Democratic Underground: Utah Women May Face Murder Charges

“Just weeks after entertaining a plan to save money by making 12th grade optional, lawmakers in the Beehive State are again provoking national controversy.

Under a bill that has passed the legislature and awaits signature by the governor, miscarriages that result from an “intentional, knowing, or reckless act” would be treated as illegal abortions, punishable by life in prison.”

The Week: Utah Making Miscarriages a Crime

“Utah… the 45th state admitted to the Union in 1896… Utah is one of the most religiously homogeneous states in the Union.
58% and 72% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)…

The state is a center of transportation, information technology and research, government services, mining, and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation.

Utah was the fastest growing state in the United States as of 2008.

Most Utahns are of Northern European descent.

… the church’s doctrine has a strong regional influence on politics.

Historically a majority of Utah’s lawmakers have been church members.

… Utah’s high birth rate - 25 percent higher than the national average; the highest for a state in the US.

The Mormons in Utah tend to have conservative views when it comes to most political issues … vote overwhelmingly Republican.

It is also one of the few non-Southern states that has more males than females.

Utah is one of the 15 states that has not ratified the U.S. Equal Rights Amendment (equal rights guarantee).”

“Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus leads the church by revealing his will to the President of the Church, whom they sustain as a modern-day prophet, seer, and revelator.

Individual members are expected to receive personal revelation from God for specifics in conducting their lives.”

Skeptic Tank: The Mormon Cult Keeps Pedophilia Legal

“… a suit, filed by a young girl and her mother, that seeks $750 million in damages from the Mormon Church.

In their complaint, the young girl, identified only as Jane Doe, contends the Mormon Church knew that her father was sexually abusing her for five years and failed to report it as required by state law.

Jane Doe alleges that not only did the Church fail to report knowledge of her abuse, but it has actually suppressed evidence of the abuse of hundreds of other Mormon children over the years.”

Skeptic Tank: Mormon Pedophile Protectors

The Dark Side of Salt Lake City

“The Mormon Church covered up its knowledge of a High Priest’s sexual molestation of young boys for more than a decade according to a Portland, Oregon lawsuit that the church paid $3,000,000.00 to settle.

The charges were brought by one of the priest’s victims, Jeremiah Scott.
Today, Scott’s mother made a statement describing the Mormon Church as a, “sanctuary for pedophiles.”

PR Newswire: Child Abuse Cover-Up

“I see way too many balding Mormon guys chasing troubled teenage girls.

Mormon settlements are just farms to raise teenage girls to auction off to all the dirty old men…

And let’s not forget the removal of competition.

When a boy is caught kissing a girl, he is removed from the community, and sent out on the streets.”

Why Does Mormonism Promote Pedophilia?

“The church that is known for placing a spiritual premium on family values is under increasing attack for an alleged failure to protect its children from pedophiles.

Therein lies the irony of a barrage of lawsuits and general complaints alleging that - in an effort to protect its wholesome image - the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called the Mormon church, has failed to root out child molesters in its midst.

The fast-growing institution, with 10 million members worldwide, is not the only church that has been plagued in recent years by embarrassing cases involving sexual abuse of children.

But while Mormon officials maintain that they have eliminated most of the problems that may have once existed, lawsuits and criminal charges linking the church to pedophiles have continued to mount.”

Mormons caught up in wave of pedophile accusations

Accused Mormon Pedophile Was Mentor for Church Children

Mormon Discrimination

“… feminist theorists alleged that misogyny is both a cause and result of patriarchal social structures.”

“Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation.

Miscarriage is the most common complication of early pregnancy.

Determining the prevalence of miscarriage is difficult.

Many miscarriages happen very early in the pregnancy, before a woman may know she is pregnant.
Treatment of women with miscarriage at home means medical statistics on miscarriage miss many cases.

Prospective studies using very sensitive early pregnancy tests have found that 25% of pregnancies are miscarried by the sixth week LMP (since the woman’s Last Menstrual Period).

Clinical miscarriages (those occurring after the sixth week LMP) occur in 8% of pregnancies.

The risk of miscarriage decreases sharply after the 10th week LMP, i.e. when the fetal stage begins.
The loss rate between 8.5 weeks LMP and birth is about two percent; loss is “virtually complete by the end of the embryonic period.”

The prevalence of miscarriage increases considerably with age of the parents.

One study found that pregnancies from men younger than 25 years are 40% less likely to end in miscarriage than pregnancies from men 25-29 years.

The same study found that pregnancies from men older than 40 years are 60% more likely to end in miscarriage than the 25-29 year age group.

Another study found that the increased risk of miscarriage in pregnancies from older men is mainly seen in the first trimester.

Yet another study found an increased risk in women, by the age of 45, on the order of 800% (compared to the 20-24 age group in that study), 75% of pregnancies ended in miscarriage.”

“Plenty of Rexburg (Idaho) parents, following the Mormon prescription for big families, have six or seven children.

One guy tells me his next-door neighbors have 13 children, and a family on the other side has 16.

If Rexburg is any indication, Mormons are taking over the world.

Prophets who run the Mormon Church - the church president, his top counselors and a dozen top apostles, based in the headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah - encourage all Mormons to be active in politics.

The prophets are said to be relaying the word of God, and while they generally don’t endorse candidates, they take stands on issues such as abortion and homosexuality.”

Mormon Church Leading Fight Against Gay Marriage

“With the battle moving east, some advocates are shouting that fact in the streets, calculating that on an issue that eventually comes down to comfort levels, more people harbor apprehensions about Mormons than about homosexuality.”

Supporters of Same-Sex Marriage Trumpet the Church’s Work Against It

“If we don’t have homos marrying each other and thereby eliminating themselves from the number of people seeking females for the purpose of creating a family, where would Mormon males find all the females to build their harem and engage in group sex within their marriage, as we all know they do?

It is so illogical.

Do you think I should write a letter to the Mormon pope to discuss this?”

The Mormons against Gay Marriage - Why? (humor)

“… plaintiffs in the Perry vs. Schwarzenegger trial challenging the legality of California’s Proposition 8 introduced two documents (over strenuous objections from the defense) indicating close but cautious coordination between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Yes on 8 campaign.

The documents, according to plaintiffs’ witness Gary Segura, a professor of political science at Stanford University, indicated a desire on the part of the Church to create “plausible deniability or respectable distance between the church organization per se and the actual campaign.”

Mormons account for 75% of donations.”

When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop. 8 Effort ‘Outed’?

Gay-Marriage Ban Protesters Target Mormon Church

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