Not all Utahns were included at the 1895 convention, Judge Paige Petersen noted.

• “Women were in the audience, but they weren’t any of the delegates,” Petersen said.

• “How do we know … what they thought the meaning of their rights were?” Peterson asked. “It seems important in this context because women are the ones that experience pregnancy and experience childbirth.”

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    It’s not. Another judge mentioned it as a reason that abortion wasn’t a thing in during the colonial period.

    He ignored that women were discussing it in home keeping books and guides. They just didn’t call it “medically necessary abortion” - they called it bleeding or stopping the blood.

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      Joseph Smith, Mormon founder, had a doctor friend, John c Bennett, who is theorized to have been the abortionist of choice for Joe and his many rapes.

      Abortion wasn’t a Christian right thing until the 1980s. Until then, it was mostly a Catholic thing. The only places where it’s “tradition” is Catholic majority states.