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Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging Women and Girls Who Miscarry With Murder

I don't know how I missed that the bill, that I had heard about and thought, "this is so fucked-up that there's no way even Utah will pass it," was signed into law this week. kirbyfest just posted this.

First of all, this *absolutely* is unconstitutional. If abortion is legal, miscarriage cannot be murder. Period. Someone is going to take this to the courts, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

In the meantime, there must be something we can do to harm the state of Utah (and really, I'm sorry Utah-ans, as much as I know that has to suck, and if you hate me for this, that's okay, but you are now collateral damage). Writing letters to the governor saying "You've just lost my tourism dollars" will do nothing. What can we DO, right now, to hurt the state where it counts: money. Budget. Income. I want ideas. Let's go. If you can think of another way to hurt Utah that doesn't have anything to do with money, that's fine too.

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BTW, there is other news coming out of Utah that just adds to the fail: 25 years ago, Utah's House majority leader Kevin Garn sat naked in a hot tub with a 15 year old female employee.

So, basically, a 30 year old man who sat naked in a hot tub with a female employee half his age (She was 15 at the time; she's 40 now while he is 55) and then paid her to keep quiet during his first political run....well, he's now the House majority leader in Utah, probably most definitely 100% behind the passage of Utah's miscarriage criminalization law.

I just don't even. I can't even. This makes me inarticulate.