A Utah judge will consider a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing a statewide ban on abortion clinics set to begin taking effect next week.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge on Friday will consider a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing a statewide ban on abortion clinics set to begin taking effect next week.will effectively end access to abortion throughout the state when clinics next week stop being able to apply for the licenses they've historically relied on to operate.
The organization operates three of Utah's four clinics that provide abortions. It argues that, with the clinic ban, the Utah Legislature "sought an alternative means" to further restrict abortions while awaiting a state Supreme Court ruling on a "trigger law" that would outlaw most abortions regardless of trimester.
"Women will be forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will; to remain pregnant until they can travel out of state to access this critical, time-sensitive medical care ... or to attempt to self-manage their abortions outside the medical system," Planned ParenthoodThe ban on clinics is Utah lawmakers' latest effort to restrict abortions and comes less than a year after the.
The law is set to take effect May 3, at which time abortion clinics will no longer be able to apply to be licensed. It would institute a full ban on Jan. 1, 2024, by stripping all clinics of their licenses. Though state officials have said clinic licenses will remain until then, Planned Parenthood has warned that it reads the law differently and fears exposing clinicians to legal liability and make providing abortions a crime. They have said that, absent intervention, they plan to stop providing abortions at their clinics.
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