One of the most important pro-life bills of this legislative session, SB 174 "Abortion Prohibition Amendments" will prohibit a doctor from performing an abortion with limited exceptions. The bill states: "the intentional termination or attempted termination of human pregnancy after implantion of a fertilized ovum through a medical procedure carried out by a physician or through a substance used under the direction of a physician;"

https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/sb0174.html

This bill - sponsored by Sen. Dan McCay - would go into effect when Roe v. Wade is overturned. Most importantly, it protects babies from all elective abortions, regardless of gestational age.

We need your help! This bill will be met with opposition and resistance and we need to show support and solidarity to stop the atrocity of abortion.

Please contact the members of the Utah Senate and urge them to vote FOR SB 174.

Many parents in Utah are taking their children to transgender clinics seeking hormone therapy and surgery for their children to change their sex. This is troublesome because sex cannot be changed. Even with extensive hormonal or cosmetic treatment, affecting the outward appearance of individuals, XX and XY chromosomes will always be XX and XY chromosomes.

​Doctors at Utah clinics, including a clinic at the University of Utah, are administering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even body-changing surgeries to children. ​

What are these “gender affirming” therapies and what damage are they inflicting on children?
 
Puberty Blockers: Powerful drugs that will prevent children from experiencing puberty. According to the American College of Pediatricians some of the effects of these body altering drugs include:

• Preventing the development of secondary sex characteristics;
• Arresting and decreasing bone growth;
• Preventing the sex-steroid dependent organization and maturation of the adolescent brain; and
• Inhibiting fertility. 

Cross-sex Hormones: Giving young girls testosterone who want to become boys and giving young boys estrogen who want to become girls. What are some the side effects of these drugs?

• Testosterone for girls: their body will redistribute weight, eyes and face will develop a more angular male appearance, a male-sounding voice, facial hair, it will greatly reduce their ability to become pregnant.
• Estrogen for boys: breast development, redistributes their weight, eyes and face develop a more female appearance, body hair will decrease in thickness, they will become permanently and irreversibly sterile. (University of California, San Francisco)
• These drugs can cause heart disease, blood clots, high blood pressure, strokes, etc.

Surgery: Hysterectomy, mastectomy, testicle removal and surgeries that attempt to create male genitalia on females and female genitalia on males which can be non-functional or with limited functionality at best. None of these surgeries are reversible in the sense of regaining full functionality or appearance if these children, or the adults they become, ever change their minds.
 
The doctors are using the children as guinea pigs with untested and unproven drugs. As a result, their bodies are mutilated, and children become sterilized. This terrible practice must be stopped. Right now there are over a HUNDRED children at the GEMS Clinic at the University of Utah receiving these hormone treatments with more children starting the treatment on a regular basis. That means there will be hundreds of sterile and mutilated children by the end of this year.

Representative Brad Daw is the sponsor of “Prohibition on Transgender Procedures Upon Minors” and Senator Curt Bramble is the Senate sponsor. This bill would make all of these procedures illegal for children under 18. Powerful people, who are not thinking of the best interest of Utah’s children, are blocking this bill from passing.  As we have seen many times before, Utahns can be even more powerful than the politicians when they come together and stand for what is right. 
 
We need your help to get this bill to committee and on its way to become the law that will save these children.

This is not a parental rights issue. Parents hold the legal right to care for their children and provide them the healthcare they need but they have never been able to allow their children to be used as guinea pigs. There is never a reason to sterilize or cosmetically alter children, which as a result destroys their God-given right to choose to have children in the future. According to long term studies in Sweden, individuals who have received chemical and surgical gender-affirming operations are 19 times more likely to commit suicide.

The number of children who change their mind is EXTREMELY HIGH. According to the DSM-5 manual, up to 88% of the girls who identify during childhood as boys and up to 97.8%  of the boys who identify as girls change their mind if they do not receive puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or surgery.  

Please email all the Utah State Representatives and Senators. Call or email the Governor.  Ask them to tell their leadership that they want the opportunity to vote on this bill to save the children.

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Please come to the Capitol with us this week to speak with your legislators. It makes a big difference when they know you are there and have a personal interest in the well-being of Utah children.
 For more information please call Maryann Christensen: 801-860-5419

• If you come to the Capitol by car, you will find visitor parking behind the Capitol on the EAST SIDE.  There is a lot right next to the Senate Building that fills up very early, another lot directly north, or parking on the street along the east and north sides of the Capitol Complex.
• If you come to the Capitol by public transportation, take Front Runner or Trax to the NORTH TEMPLE STATION and catch the 200 BUS to the Capitol.  It arrives at the Station every 15 minutes. YOU CAN ALSO PARK YOUR CAR AT THE NORTH TEMPLE STATION (500 W 200 N) and catch the bus!
• You will meet up with us at the south end of the Cafeteria in the Senate Building, which is behind the Capitol on the East.  When you come in from the parking lot, look to the far wall to your left!
• Carola (our volunteer coordinator) or Gabriella (our Intern Director) will greet you when you arrive.