Members of the Utah House and Senate have criticized a comment by the state’s lieutenant governor drawing a comparison between abortion and slavery. Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox was one of three candidates asked during a Republican gubernatorial candidates forum Saturday if he would sign a bill defining life as beginning at conception. Cox told the Utah Eagle Forum Convention in Sandy that he believes future generations will come to view abortion as negatively as people today view slavery. A group of Democrats in the state Legislature took issue with the comment. Democratic Rep. Sandra Hollins says the comparison is offensive.