New abortion restrictions for victims, documentation rules passed
Under that ban — which passed in 2020 and went into effect in June before being blocked by a district court judge — rape and incest victims are required to report the crime to law enforcement before seeking an abortion. Birkeland’s bill requires doctors to document how they are verifying that crimes have been reported, and she has said that data collected would inform future policy.
“This allows law enforcement the opportunity to speak in a way that they recognize the threat. They can help deliver those services. We still need to do a better job of connecting them with services. We’re going to keep working on it, but this is a good step,” Rep. Ryan Wilcox, R-Ogden, said.. Her cousin Mandy Mayne was shot and killed by her ex last year.
Teuscher sponsored the bill at the behest of Utah GOP Chairman Carson Jorgensen, who saw the 70% threshold as a way to make the traditional caucus/convention pathway more attractive to candidates. Ironically, the 70% convention threshold was the original level of support that Count My Vote proposed to the Utah GOP in 2013, but party leaders shot that idea down, leading CMV to push forward with a ballot initiative to remove the caucus/convention system from Utah’s nominating process.
When it dries up it'll release tons of arsenic laden dust all over the valley and beyond. It'll kill children and destroy thousands of acres of wildlife habitat. Talk about pro life. Watch this if you live in Utah and call all your legislators. GovCox
The “stooge-weight” up on UT capital hill is crushing.
Really? An emergency plan? What are the details? Why haven't they been made public? Given the Legislature's track record, sounds like BS.
Maybe, considering the Utah State Legislature is dominated by the scum that is home builders and developers, their just waiting to “Develop” the dried out lake bed.
Good thing we are guaranteed a winter like this every year and nice cool summers… utleg is a joke!
So profoundly stupid
The plan is to do nothing. Figures.
They are politicians. The plan included screwing some of their constituents. They aren’t going to incur political damage by disclosing that plan if they don’t have to.
🙄Sooo short sighted
Hey SpencerJCox is this true? Is everything fine now?
Stupid take by the GOP supermajority. I expected this cop-out once the snow piled up. Have they never heard the fable of the grasshopper and the ant? They also shut down an amendment that would require water saved from lawns to flow directly to GSL. BradWilsonGOP JStuartAdams
Car salesman talk
This is so short sighted.
This sounds like something from the onion.....
Broken brains
I was considering giving a homeless man at an intersection a spare few bucks but the car in front of me gave him some of their change, so I figure he’s probably set for life now and didn’t need any help from me.
Lake effect snow, wildlife,…we are all connected.
Saved by the LORD!!!
So we’re going to send all that new fresh water to a lake so salty that it becomes useless. Why not accept a smaller GS Lake and bring the Dutch water engineers in to show us how to reclaim the old lake bed as they have done in the Netherlands for centuries.
Childish thinking
GOP lawmakers are ruining America for temporary “economic” gains - UT is just another example. Science & climate are fantasy to these ppl and they always wait until it’s a disaster already then cry about the problem with still no solutions. Y’all think East Palestine is bad…
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This weather isn't the drought ending. It was predicted to be a wild winter caused by the Tongan volcano eruption being so large it perturbed the polar vortex. We will go back to what we have been having the past few years. Mild dry winters. We should plan ahead.
Probably should still do the plan.
'According to Sen. Scott Sandall, the legislature had an emergency plan-' The emergency plan still needs to be enacted. What if we have an unusually hot summer? How many fires will have to be fought this coming year? There goes the extra snowfall we had.
Oh FFS are you kidding me?!! One really nice snow storm or 20 of them is not going to FIX the lake and our water problems overall, bunch of freaking cowards....AAARRGGH utleg you are the worst!! I never learn about anything you do that ISN'T completely horrible, stupid, evil....
Can they please share this emergency plan? And it needs to be ready to enact at literally a moments notice. In fact, it should be enacted no anyway. A single year of good snow is not enough to change this if human water usage isn't altered now. We'll be right back in trouble.
Stop the building. We can not afford the water loss. Stop taking over mother nature. More people and more buildings is not the answer. Enjoy the open land.
We're screwed.
Welcome to the front lines of the global extinction event. Utah legislature leads the way. Let’s all gather to Ensign Peak and breathe deeply of the gathering toxins.
Tweet doesn’t match article. Article doesn’t match Article Title. Elon has destroyed this damn site
Cheer up, it's March and protest weather is right around the corner! Y'all start making big signs and practice screaming.
Snow pack will come and go, we need long term sustainable solutions
I’m sure we will never have to worry about it again
I’d like to know what this emergency plan looks like. So people can evaluate it and plan, not be forced to scramble after the last day of the legislative session next year.
The Secret Plan was “pray harder”. Worked the first time
🤦♀️. All the new homes, businesses etc. or has Utah stopped that?(not real question). Getting ‘lucky’ you have more time isnt a solution. Toxins like Arsenic are waiting for release. But sure, keep hoping for luck.
Oh for god’s sake…but of course. 🙄
All you crazy liberal environmentalists that don’t get climate and Mother Nature. I’m sure they’ll blame all the flooding in the spring on climate change. Never happy libs
Oh. Mother nature can be a very nasty thing. But if it doesn't rain. There is no colors. I'm glad the problem was solved. I for one drew up a idea that would work for little cost. But because people are so Critical, they could see the valley threw the woods.
Progs are mad we got precipitation
R u f’cking kidding me right now?!
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