Abortion Ban

The letters warn of sanctions despite an injunction issued in July by Third District Court Judge Andrew Stone, which blocked Utah’s abortion trigger law from taking effect.

As the battle for reproductive rights deepens in post-Roe America, a law professor points out, “Colorado is going to be so important in the near future, immediate future, right now."

The preliminary injunction is effective immediately and will remain in effect until the lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood of Utah is settled.

Utah OB-GYNs are now trying to resolve what their world looks like in a post-Roe shifting legal landscape.

“We’re grateful for this temporary restraining order that will allow abortion services to resume in Utah,” said Planned Parenthood of Utah president and CEO Karrie Galloway.

The church is against abortions, except in instances of rape, incest and if the pregnant person’s life or the fetus’ is in danger.

Utah’s near-total abortion ban took effect Friday night. Here’s how Utahns reacted across the state.

Legislative legal counsel will now review the state’s trigger law and the Supreme Court’s opinion.

When Julie Burkhart learned about the Supreme Court draft opinion that would end abortion protections, she let out an involuntary shriek from her airplane seat. “Because it felt like such a gut punch,” she said. “And then after that, getting into the opinion and reading that — it was chilling.”

A law passed by the Utah legislature in 2020 would ban most abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade.

The Mountain West is as divided on abortion as the nation itself.

A bill banning all elective abortions, if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, passed the Utah Legislature Thursday after the House of…