Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah filed a lawsuit seeking to block Utah's new law banning all elective abortions.
The lawsuit, filed Saturday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court, argues that Utah's law is unconstitutional and seeks a restraining order to block it from being enforced. FOX 13 News reported on Friday night the law had gone into effect following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving it to states to decide how to regulate abortion.
"Utahns harmed by this extreme abortion ban will include women who seek care just days or weeks after discovering a missed period; those who are already struggling to pull their children out of poverty, finish school, escape an abusive partner, or overcome addiction; sexual assault survivors who, as is common, do not report their assault to law enforcement; and families grieving fetal diagnoses that they know they are ill-equipped to cope with," the lawsuit states.
Planned Parenthood said in the lawsuit it was forced to cancel a dozen appointments on Friday for abortions as a result of the trigger law. It had more than 55 scheduled abortion procedures next week which were halted by the new law.
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