Abortion

After less than two years at the helm, Boyd’s last day will be March 28." The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah will launch a national search for a new leader “at this time of great adversity.”

The lawsuit had argued that emergency-room doctors treating pregnant women had to provide terminations if needed to save their lives or to avoid serious health consequences in Idaho, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Thanks to a constitutional right Republicans fought for in the wake of the passage of the federal Affordable Care Act, abortion remains legal in Wyoming. Voters also recently protected access to abortion in Montana, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.

Republican Rep. Burgess Owens and Democratic challenger Katrina Fallick-Wang staked out different sides on social media, abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

GOP leaders have derided recent decisions as the work of activist judges or “policymaking from the bench.” That has some in the supermajority toying with the idea of judicial reform.

The 4-1 decision determined Utah's Planned Parenthood had standing in the case and that a lower court did not abuse its discretion when it blocked the state's "trigger law" in 2022.

Arkansas and Tennessee filed the lawsuit in federal court April 25, calling the new rules an illegal interpretation of a 2022 federal law.

According to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, there were just five reported abortions in the state in 2023. A sharp decline from previous years, that number does not appear to reflect the reality of abortion access in the state since strict abortion bans went into effect.

Lawmakers like Republican Karriane Lisonbee believe Utah’s “trigger law” will be upheld as constitutional “and we want that decision made.”

Republican Rep. Karianne Lisonbee’s bill would allow abortion clinics to be licensed to perform abortions in the state, but it is her hope that the law would lead to a faster ruling on the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Doctors in states with strict abortion restrictions say an increasing number of pregnant women are seeking early prenatal testing. They're hoping to detect serious problems while they still have time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy.

State's attorneys want the Utah Supreme Court to overrule a lower court's decision to put the 2020 state law banning most abortions on hold.