State advances legislation to ban clinics that offer only abortion

Additional, the invoice prohibits the licensing of abortion clinics after Could 2, 2023, and makes it a felony offense for out-of-state actors to prescribe abortion medicine to Utahns.

The Utah Home Democratic Caucus decried the invoice as “a direct assault on reproductive well being care.”

Deliberate Parenthood Motion Council of Utah posted on Twitter that the invoice “would shutter all abortion clinics in (Utah) and make this important well being care MUCH extra inaccessible and costly for #Utahns.”

Lisonbee pushed again on the declare that her invoice would shut abortion clinics, saying that suppliers like Deliberate Parenthood can proceed providing different well being companies and abortions in restricted exceptions.

Docs performing abortions in fetal anomaly circumstances will now be required to tell the mom that perinatal hospice care, which is look after infants with quick life expectations, is on the market as a substitute for abortion.

“As a state, we deeply worth human life in any respect levels and in all circumstances,” Lisonbee stated. “It’s the state’s duty to guard essentially the most weak, and that features the unborn.”