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.”
Why is this the first time a judge is mentioning this…
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.
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.