I strongly oppose the 20-week abortion ban that the House passed in October and upon which the Senate will vote this week. I hear my representative and senators speak of the “unborn child.” This extremist religious terminology is out of place in the storied halls of U.S. government. It is a fiction that Rep. Chris Stewart used to trample on the basic human rights of women in his district. Every woman is endowed by God with the inalienable right to self-determination over her own body. In the case of a 20-week fetus inside a woman’s body, there is only one child of God.
Stewart is forcing all of the women in his district to follow his own personal god, even though science, law and reality are very clear that a 20-week fetus is not capable of life outside of a woman. Our senators are wasting time regulating a make-believe “unborn child” while the born child murders his classmates at school with the guns the senators refuse to regulate. That’s sad.
Courtney Henley, Salt Lake City