Utah – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

22 Apr

Planned Parenthood closing two Utah clinics after Trump cuts all federal reproductive health funds to state

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Planned Parenthood Association of Utah will shut down a quarter of its clinics after the Trump administration froze a Title X grant to pay for family planning services.

15 Feb

As faith-based programs teach sex ed in Utah’s public schools, Planned Parenthood may get banned

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At least two school districts have approved employees of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Family Services to give sex education-related lectures to students.

02 Aug

Utah Supreme Court upholds pause on abortion ban

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“The Utah Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday morning that upheld an injunction blocking enforcement of a 2020 trigger law that bans nearly all abortions across the state. The 4-1 opinion from the Utah Supreme Court — which is comprised of three women and two men — affirmed a district court’s decision to enjoin the enforcement of the ban while Planned Parenthood of Utah and the state continue to litigate the constitutionality of the law….”

02 Aug

Utah lawmaker proposes 6-week abortion ban

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“A Utah lawmaker is calling for a special session to make abortions illegal after six weeks of pregnancy following a state Supreme Court ruling Thursday that kept the state's pending abortion ban on hold….”

04 Jun

Nearly a thousand fewer doctors applied to come to Utah this year. The state’s abortion rules may be to blame.

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“State governments and health care leaders need to consider the potential impact of those [policy] decisions on the physician workforce,” the health care think tank wrote in their report.

03 Oct

New OB-GYNs are avoiding abortion-restrictive states like Utah

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"After completing her residency in New York City, OB-GYN Alex Woodcock came home to Utah in the summer of 2022 to start a complex family planning fellowship at the state’s flagship university. Just as she arrived, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the longstanding precedent that held that abortion access was constitutionally protected. She immediately wondered: “How is this going to impact other people that are applying for fellowships, or even applying for jobs, from the class below me, and where are they going to go? Are people going to want to come to states that are restricted?”…

16 Jun

Rural Utah abortion clinic closes amid staff shortages, plans to reopen in August

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"There is now one fewer place to access abortion in Utah after Planned Parenthood closed its only clinic outside the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah said on Thursday that the Logan clinic has long been staffed with one provider, who left to take another position in March. The northern Utah city of 52,000 is home to Utah State University and about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Idaho, where abortions have been banned except for in cases of rape or incest since last year...."