MiQuel Davies writes that Utahns should care deeply about the fall of Roe v. Wade.
In this May 21, 2019, photo, activists gather in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda to protest abortion bans happening in Utah and around the country, in Salt Lake City.I’m a native Utahn. A lawyer. An abortion rights advocate. I have a deep love for Utah and miss its mountains and the family and friends who still live there.
What I do not miss, and certainly do not love, is the anti-abortion politics infringing on people’s access to care. Abortion is already difficult to obtain for many Utahns. It’s about to get much worse, and Utahns, regardless of political affiliation or personal beliefs, should be very worried.restrict access to abortion
. Utah requires a person to receive medically unnecessary, biased counseling and requires a person to wait 72 hours – three days – before having an abortion. Utah requires people to make two separate trips to a facility, regardless of circumstance such as where they live, whether they can arrange childcare, or whether they can afford to take days off from work.
To add insult to injury, Utah restricts coverage for abortion to extremely limited circumstances. And requires abortion clinics to comply with medically unnecessary regulations designed to make it more difficult to offer abortion care. Not to mention that some 97% of Utah counties have no clinics that provide abortions, and 63% of Utah women live in those counties.for abortion rights was 2021, with states enacting more burdensome and medically unnecessary restrictions since Roe v.
And, while abortion is currently a constitutional right, the Supreme Court is poised to completely overturn Roe this summer – gutting access to abortion. Utah is one of 26 states with a trigger ban, meaning it will outlaw abortion in the state when RoeStates across the country, including Utah, are already beginning to see the ripple effects of abortion bans. Wait times across the country for abortion care are, as people are forced to travel further to obtain care.
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