Members of Utah's federal delegation, the attorney general and state lawmakers have continued their push to limit access to abortion both in Utah and nationwide in recent days.
Members of the federal delegation, the attorney general and state lawmakers have continued their push to limit access to abortion both in Utah and nationwide in recent days.
“These are the babies that should have lived, the babies that our own Utah Legislature tried to protect. So how did this happen?” asked Deanna Holland, the head of the organization.when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, under which the court previously held that women have a constitutional right to an abortion. A few days later, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah filed a lawsuit challenging the ban, and a district court judge put the law on hold.
The trigger law, it said, “will prevent members of these congregations from exercising their faith and acting in accordance with their consciences in accessing abortion care,” and that its “grounding in the moral beliefs of some religions over others denigrates the moral beliefs of these congregations and their members and further harms them in this way.”
And in the days leading up to the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes expanded his fight against abortion beyond the Beehive State by taking stands against federal efforts to expand access to reproductive health care.
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