Planned Parenthood Association of Utah

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.

The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah is celebrating its bigger and better Ogden facility.

As it stands right now, abortion is legal in Utah up to 18 weeks of pregnancy and people can still go to an abortion clinic to receive the procedure.

A year after the constitutional right to abortion was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood of Utah is hunkered down in two legal battles to protect abortion rights in the state.

“This isn’t like a ‘win-win.’ This is a small victory because our health and personal freedoms are still at stake,” said Candida Duran Taveras, Planned Parenthood of Utah’s director of community engagement.

Judge Andrew Stone on Tuesday granted a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing a law that would have stopped abortion clinics from getting licenses beginning on Wednesday. The organization argues the ban signed into law earlier this year will effectively end access to abortion in Utah.

The law is scheduled to take effect May 3, but the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the American Civil Liberties Union hope to block it.

Planned Parenthood and ACLU of Utah filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a new Utah law that would ban abortion clinics. The law, signed by Gov. Spencer Cox in March, doesn't take effect until May 3.

Galloway retires just as Utah, and other conservative states, are restricting access to abortion in the new post-Roe world.

Boyd will replace retiring longtime CEO Karrie Galloway in May. Sarah Stoesz will serve as interim CEO in the meantime.

The decision by Utah’s Republican governor to approve legislation that bans abortions clinics is raising concerns about how already overburdened hospitals will accommodate becoming the only place for legal abortions in the state.

Cox told reporters in February that he planned on signing the measure, which also clarifies the definition of abortion to address legal liability concerns providers voiced about the way exceptions are worded in state law — a provision Republicans called a compromise.