Utah Lt. Governor: “Abortion Will Go Down as One of the Greatest Travesties in the History of Humankind”, by Micaiah Bilger

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Abortion will be condemned someday as “one of the greatest travesties in the history of humankind,” Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox said Saturday.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports Cox compared the injustice of abortion toward unborn babies to the injustice of slavery in America. He and several other Republican candidates for governor spoke Saturday at an Eagle Forum convention in Sandy, Utah.

“I truly believe that at some point in the future, future generations will look back on us today, and they will…look at abortion the way we look at slavery. It will go down in history as one of the greatest travesties in the history of humankind,” Cox said, Newsweek reports.

He made the comment in response to a question about legislation that would recognize that human life begins at conception, according to the report.

Utah pro-abortion Democrats quickly slammed Cox for defending the rights of unborn babies. According to Newsweek, state Rep. Sandra Hollins, the first African American woman elected to the Utah legislature, said she was offended.  ….

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