Christian Exposes LDS Hypocrisy on Abortion

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House Bill 467 just became public this afternoon. FOX 13 News reporter

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Chris Arnold spoke with anti -abortion and pro -choice advocates who let their voices be heard on this extremely emotional issue.

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My name is Chris Martinson. I'm the head of Voice for the Voiceless. And I'm neutral on the bill, but only because I don't see it doing anything.

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That's kind of what we've seen in the past anyway. But last year, the bill misleadingly said that the abortion clinics were closed and abortion has ended.

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They said that from the stage at the convention. But we know that this was never true. The history of abortion laws has always been to allow abortion into law.

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The fact that abortion—in fact, abortion is legal in Utah up until birth for the mother, and that's written in every law.

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In the latest report from the Utah Vital Statistics, there were 2 ,810 abortions performed under 15 weeks, 168 over 15 weeks, 40 of them being after 21 weeks.

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So these lawmakers wrote past the laws that support this.

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The sponsors last year of HB 467 told me that there was little or no support from legislature to end abortion in Utah.

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And in fact, the exceptions were taken—if they were taken away, then the LDS organization would come out against the law.

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So to wrap it up, writing these bills gives bodily autonomy to one person but not another.

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And we need the bills that protect humans from other humans when those humans want to hurt them.

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So anything less than an equal protection bill is unequal weights and measures.