Days before a ban on abortion clinics is slated to begin putting a halt to most abortions in Utah, a district court judge has delayed his decision on whether to enjoin the law, saying he doesn't want to 'shoot from the hip.'
The request came as part of its larger lawsuit challenging Utah’s abortion trigger law, which went into effect last summer following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade and bans abortion with limited exceptions. Stone put a temporary restraining order on the trigger law a few days later, and eventually issued a temporary injunction that remains in place.
It also adds professional penalties for health care providers who provide illegal abortions, further limits when people can seek an abortion after being sexually assaulted and discourages it if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. Attorneys for Planned Parenthood have described the law in court filings as an attempt by the Legislature “to accomplish by other means what the Utah courts have prevented it from doing directly — ban abortion in Utah.”
In its request for a preliminary injunction, attorneys included a declaration from Planned Parenthood Association of Utah’s Annabel Sheinberg, who serves as vice president of external affairs. She said she met with DHHS soon after the bill was signed in March to ask how her organization could obtain such a license.
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