[...] Is Utah making miscarriage a criminal act? [...]

Clearly the language was made ambiguous on purpose. This is done by the people who care about “life” until it is born.

The great majority of miscarriages are caused by chromosomal abnormalities inherent at conception. The idea that some act “causes” miscarriage comes from the movies. I know, a little off-subject, but one of those misconceptions that drives me nuts.

Abortion should be safe and legal for everyone anyway.

As someone that has suffered a miscarriage and a mid-term stillbirth, This scares the hell out of me. It’s a blatant attack on women from a mysoginistic religious culture. I did everything right, and didn’t have a baby.
I was in a car accident (very minor fender bender) when I was pregnant and didn’t go to the hospital. Am I a criminal? I admit to having an occasional sip of wine at church while I was pregnant, and even I think 1 or 2 glasses of wine while I was pregnant. Should I be conviced of murder since the baby died from unrelated, unforseen, and random cardiovascular developmental issues and she had a 5-10% chance of survival anyway??

I had the fear of knowing the baby I was carrying was sick and will die, and that there is nothing that I could do about it. The inconsolable sense of loss when the baby, still inside, is dead. Having to go through the birth and delivery of your own dead child, then holding the dead child you just gave birth to, in your arms, watching the tiny fragile body start to bleed in your hands because the skin hasn’t developed enough to hold it all in. then to say goodby and bury your beloved baby. This was my time with my daughter.

It’s bad enough that most of society doesn’t even recognize that a mother has inconsolable grief at the loss of a baby, miscarriage or stillborn. Calus and cold, unfeeling comments of “you can have another one to replace it”, and “Stop being so sad, it’s not like you really had a baby” were unbearable. Even a year later while pregnant with my next child, I never enjoyed the pregnancy with her because I was afraid she would die.

Utah, SHAME ON YOU!!!

Making a law like this because of a single case, would be a huge overreaction. I have worked with midwives in Utah and have found their services to be outstanding (www.birthingathome.com) However, a law like this could have a huge detrimental impact on their ability to help clients, especially since a cause for miscarriage is often hard to determine. A single precedent could have terrible effects.

I am completely appalled at the thought of this attempt coming to fruition. First, proof of intent could go drastically awry. A woman neglects her seatbelt & swerves off the road. After badgering a miscarriage victim who won’t admit intent, you find someone to claim they heard her say she wished she never got pregnant at all. Who’s to decide what went on in her mind? Second, would you trust a child with a woman who was so desperate to be rid of her child she hired someone to put her through a beating vicious enough to miscarry? I say go after her for hiring someone for assault and leave the miscarriage out of it. Separation of church and state has to expand to abortion. Not everyone believes in God so the biblical argument desperately needs to be left at legislation’s doorstep.