Utah’s anesthesia abortion law unenforced

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah doctors say they haven’t changed anything about the way they perform late-term abortions, almost a year after the state passed a first-in-the-nation requirement that fetuses receive anesthesia or painkillers.
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah CEO Karrie Galloway says her doctors are trying to comply with the law, but there is no clear guidance in the law or from state officials on how to do so.
One of the doctors told The Associated Press that she asked the state attorney general’s office for guidance but received none.
Pro-Life Utah president Mary Taylor says that she supports the law but wishes it had tougher provisions.
The Republican lawmaker who sponsored the legislation says he doesn’t know how the law is being implemented but expects doctors to follow it.