{"id":1498,"date":"2010-03-10T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2010-03-10T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:33:12","slug":"long-arm-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/long-arm-of-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"long arm of the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AOL News<\/em> reports &#8211; (March 10) &#8212; &#8220;In Utah, women who seek out illegal abortions can now be charged with criminal homicide. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/nation\/article\/new-utah-law-holds-women-criminally-liable-for-illegal-abortions\/19391465\">Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday signed the controversial law that allows women to be charged &#8216;for killing an unborn child.'&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thirty-eight states, including New York and California, have fetal homicide laws on the books. But according to the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures, these laws are intended to criminalize &#8216;fetuses killed by violent acts against pregnant women,&#8217; not by the woman herself.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The [Utah] legislation is the first in the country to hold a woman criminally liable for the death of her fetus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The long arm of the law just got longer.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOL News reports &#8211; (March 10) &#8212; &#8220;In Utah, women who seek out illegal abortions can now be charged with criminal homicide. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday signed the controversial law that allows women to be charged &#8216;for killing an unborn child.&#8217;&#8221; &#8220;Thirty-eight states, including New York and California, have fetal homicide laws on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}