Comments on: HB235–ABORTION LAW REVISIONS

By: Michael T Packard BSEE

Michael T Packard BSEE — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:35:48 +0000

Some perspective on relative costs and priorities:

Utah has spent more than $4 million fighting a high level nuclear waste repository in Skull Valley along with over $1 billion in income and wages that would come with it.
No one has been killed, ever, in America in connection with transporting or storing civilian nuclear waste, (by radiation exposure). No one has been killed by radiation at a nuclear generating station, either.

Abortions have taken the lives of tens of millions of unborn children!

By: Restless Republican

Restless Republican — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:46:35 +0000

I agree with Tom. Why must we try to fix what isn\’t broken? The ability to amend the bill, while better than the original effort, still leaves me with a bad taste. Who likes to choose between the lesser of two evils?

It would have been best to leave this alone. If we really want to \”protect our children\”, let\’s provide decent health, dental and vision services to the poor; let\’s educate the ones we have.

By: KVNU’s For The People » $4 Million Message

KVNU’s For The People » $4 Million Message — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:01:10 +0000

[...] Utah County Republican Representative Craig Frank, updates HB 235, which will ban abortions an inevitably trigger costly lawsuits. The hope of supporting legislators is that the law will trigger lawsuits that will in turn reverse years of pro-choice court decisions. [...]

By: Tom Grover

Tom Grover — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:39:29 +0000

If this bill is inevitably going to “trigger” lawsuits, and the anticipated cost is $4 million, then wouldn’t it be prudent to allocate that $4 million now?

What assurances do I, as a taxpayer, have that there is even a remote possibility that the well established abortion rulings, which extend far beyond Roe v. Wade, will be overturned? How do I know that this $4 million won’t be wasted tilting at windmills or spitting in the wind?