If the good Senator from Orem *really* wants to eliminate gender selective abortions perhaps she should sponsor a bill that makes it illegal to find out the sex of the unborn infant. After all if our creator really wanted us to know the gender before birth s/he would have made it so long before the evils of science made it possible.

This is not the purpose or the role of government.

These proposed Utah laws to stop abortion based on the fetus's gender or race are just more dishonest administrative obstacles to a woman getting an abortion. These laws will certainly be written to give the woman the burden to prove the wanted abortion is not based on gender or race. And, of course, a woman will almost never be able to disprove a legal presumption that she wants the abortion for race or gender reasons. There's no way this rabidly anti-abortion Mormon Utah legislature is going to go along with just the woman's affidavit saying it isn't for race or gender reasons. The authors and supporters of these bills are just trying to place more onerous obstacles to exercising what is still a Constitutional right. It's like Republicans enacting laws to prevent in-person voter fraud when there is no significant problem with in-person voter fraud -- solely in order to suppress the Democratic vote. Republicans here want to enact these anti-abortion laws when there is no evidence of any significant problem of women having abortions because of the gender or race of the fetus; they just want to prevent all abortions even though there's technically still a right for a woman to have an abortion.