Abortion bill opposed: 52% don't support spending millions on Roe challenge

[Judi Lynn]

Abortion bill opposed

52% don't support spending millions on Roe challenge

Copyright 2007 Deseret Morning News
By Angie Welling
Deseret Morning News

A slight majority of Utahns do not support using millions of state dollars to fight the landmark abortion ruling Roe vs. Wade, despite top lawmakers' statements to the contrary.

Deseret Morning News graphic In a new Dan Jones & Associates poll conducted for the Deseret Morning News and KSL-TV, just over half — 52 percent — opposed a proposed law to ban most abortions in the state and the legal challenge that would be sure to follow.

Forty-one percent either strongly or somewhat favor HB235, sponsored by Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield. The bill would ban abortions except in cases of rape, incest or extreme medical necessity for the mother. It is intended to pose a challenge to Roe, in which the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 recognized a woman's right to have an abortion.
The poll, conducted between Feb. 6 and 8, has a 5 percent margin of error.

Ray, joined by GOP Senate leaders, has said he believes the majority of Utahns would support state efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade and make abortion a state issue, rather than a federal one. The issue, he said, is not about views on abortion but on the cost of taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660194868,00.html

[Megahurtz]

1. Utah.

That's a surprize!

[Bobbieo]

2. Many Utahns are spending their energies fighting

Bush's Divine Strake. That's a real threat to them!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Oh, go ahead and waste the money. Utah is one of the few states that still

supports Bush&Co.

[Bobbieo]

4. They sure don't support Bush's Divine Strake.

That mother will kill them!!!!

[Megahurtz]

5. Don't really want to sound like a Dummy, but

:dunce:

What do you mean by Bush's "Divine Strake"?

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Divine Strake:

The DIVINE STRAKE full scale test is planned to be a large-yield, buried burst detonated at the Nevada Test Site. Divine Strake would appear to be associated with the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator RNEP, or possibly the B61-11 Earth-Penetrating Weapon, a fact that is obscured in most press coverage. Divine Strake is a high-explosive (HE) test sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The test is a detonation of a 700 ton buried heavy AN/FO charge above a tunnel structure. The main purpose of the test is to study ground shock effects on deeply buried tunnel structures. Of secondary interest is the airblast produced by a buried charge and its modification as it propagates over the local terrain.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/divine-strake.htm

[Judi Lynn]

6. It can't help!

http://www.stopdivinestrake.com/index.html
http://www.shundahai.org/divine_strake_web.htm