Guns And Fetuses

August, 1991

There's nothing like a drawn gun to clarify a position.The gun was drawn last winter when the Utah state legislature hastily enacted what it hoped would be the nation's most restrictive abortion bill. The law outlawed more than 90 percent of abortions, reducing a woman's right to choose to instances of rape, incest, grave personal health threat or grave fetal deformity. Because of an existing law from 1983 that declared it criminal homicide to cause "the death of another human being, includ...