(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Legislature has passed a bill to ban abortion clinics in Utah starting next year. The Senate approved the bill along party lines on Thursday. The House passed the measure earlier in the session and now needs to approve two Senate amendments before sending the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A bill that would close all abortion clinics in Utah by 2024 is moving forward in the Legislature. The bill the House Judiciary Committee passed on Wednesday would allow only hospitals to provide abortions, and they would be under strict guidelines. The bill sponsored by […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Health officials are providing details about the number of abortions performed in Utah. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fewer abortions happened in 2020 than in 2019. There were just over 23-hundred performed in 2020, down over 550 from the year before. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court is planning to hear an appeal of a lower-court order that has kept the state’s abortion trigger law from going into effect. The Utah Attorney General’s Office filed an appeal of the order last week. The justices denied a request by […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A group of Republican state lawmakers has sent cease-and-desist orders to some abortion providers and funders in Utah. The letters state a voluntary abortion is still a criminal offense despite a preliminary injunction that’s blocking the street from filing criminal prosecutions under Utah’s trigger ban. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A Utah judge has granted a Planned Parenthood request to delay the implementation of a law blocking all elective abortions in the state. The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah calls the preliminary injunction a “breath of fresh air” that allows Utah women the right to […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A court hearing is scheduled today in Salt Lake City over a state district court judge’s ruling blocking Utah’s trigger law banning abortion from taking effect. Judge Andrew Stone blocked the law from going into effect on June 27th to allow time to hear a […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A judge in Utah is granting a temporary restraining order that will block Utah’s abortion trigger law for two weeks. The ACLU and Planned Parenthood filed for an emergency injunction over the weekend, challenging the ban on elective abortions. Attorneys claim the law violates Utah’s […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints clarified its stance on abortion following Friday’s Roe v. Wade decision. On the Church’s webpage, LDS leaders say the faith’s stance on abortion remains unchanged, allowing the procedure if the mother’s health is at risk, the fetus […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood of Utah are suing the state in an attempt to block its abortion trigger law. The law went into effect on Friday after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and bans abortion at any […]
