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Federal government to take care of their mutual needs. if the federal government is monopolizing property that state could use for the citizen and freedom and their prosperpy and they're -- prosperity and they're not able to make use of the property in a way they'd like to, they should turn to federal government and say you're not upholding your obligation under the constitution and we're going to take the land back and use in a way to benefit the citizen and protects their rights. >> representative wimmer, i guess you need a battle chest for this one. you know that the feds will resist this t...

What you said that you're trying to do. you're anti-abortion and want abortion to be illegal in all cases, and this is an attempt to get there. it's not closing the loophole. it's creating a law that's unconstitutional. >> you do expect this to be -- i mean, there's going to be an appeal and go before the supreme court preem assumably, correct? >> i highly -- >> you don't disagree with that, representative wimmer, that that's ultimately your intent? >> i do not believe this bill will go to court. this bill is completely constitutional. i highly disagree with the assessment that it's unconstitu...

Reckless behavior causes them to miscarry their pregnancies. is that going too far? could it be staying in an abusive relationship. should that behavior be a crime? joining me right now is representative carl wimmer, who is the sponsor of the bill and lisa bloom. representative wimmer, explain, first of all, what exactly your intent is with this legislation. >> yeah. thank you. the intention of this legislation is to close a loophole that we found in utah law that allows a woman to kill her unborn child intentionally or knowingly without any repercussions or consequences wh whatsoever from the...

About, what was your intention in putting these in? >> yeah. thank you. we had a case in utah where a pregnant woman hired a man to beat her, kick her in the stomach multiple times in an attempt to kill her seven-month-along unborn child. the man was charged with attempted homicide, as was the female. it came out in the courts that under utah law there was no cause for action for any attempt for a woman to try to abort her child no matter what she did. no matter how heinous the act was, she could not be prosecuted no matter what she did. so this case exposed a large loophole in state law and t...