Utah Supreme Court reviews abortion ban; judge notes historical omission of women's voices
Utah Supreme Court reviews abortion ban; judge notes historical omission of women's voices
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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Utah is one of the states that refused to ratify the Equal Rights Amendments. Utah has a long history of attempting to silence women's voices. The Mormon church was instrumental in making sure it failed in the state. The fact that women weren't involve in the discussion a hundred years ago is par for the course there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equal_Rights_Amendment_and_Utah
What??? The racist, sexist, violent, polygamist church run by rich white men didn't want to ratify the civil rights amendments???
Fyi, black people were restricted from having the priesthood (essentially the power allowing you to perform every saving ordinance) until 1978. It is Mormon doctrine that they are essentially cursed.