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Animal rights groups face pushback as the Utah state Legislature limits wildlife birth control efforts to safeguard hunting.

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If the animal rights crowd thought they could skulk around the Utah wilds and sterilize the big game, they better think twice, because the hunters there are on to them: According to the AP:

Some sportsmen have expressed worry that animal rights groups will begin giving birth control to deer so their population levels will reach a point that they can't be legally hunted.

Not taking any chances, the Utah state Legislature passed this bill today, which allows only authorized persons to inject wildlife with birth control. Now let's be clear: the mule deer in Utah are threatened on many fronts, from habitat loss to chronic wasting disease. But animal rights advocates armed with birth control darts?

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