{"id":22103891,"date":"2019-06-30T21:47:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T03:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=22103891"},"modified":"2019-07-02T14:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:14:05","slug":"how-will-the-national-abortion-debate-impact-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/how-will-the-national-abortion-debate-impact-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"How will the national abortion debate impact Utah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While recent abortion bans in Alabama and Missouri gain traction in national news, debate surrounding legislation that restricts access to abortions isn\u2019t exclusively a southern issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the Utah Legislature\u2019s last session, Rep. Cheryl Acton, R-West Jordan, introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2019\/bills\/static\/HB0136.html\">HB136<\/a>, which would ban abortions in Utah after 18 weeks, four weeks earlier than abortions had previously been allowed. The bill originally called for a 15-week ban, but was later revised. It includes exceptions for severe brain abnormalities, the life of the mother and, unlike the law in Alabama, victims of rape and incest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Katrina Barker of the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah said PPAU had worked throughout the session to try and stop the bill from passing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of outspoken opposition,\u201d Barker said. \u201cDozens of doctors wrote letters and op-eds and met with legislators personally to say that this is not in the best interest of women\u2019s health in Utah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Barker said pro-choice advocates felt ignored by the Utah government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegislators and the governor did not listen,\u201d Barker said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Acton\u2019s handouts in a Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee meeting list several arguments in favor of the bill, including fetal pain perception, potential medical risks post-abortion and Utah\u2019s \u201cculture of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed in both Utah\u2019s House and Senate, and in March, was signed by Gov. Gary Herbert. However, due to a joint lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union and a following injunction granted by a federal judge, the bill has not yet been enforced. Barker said nothing has changed as far as Utahan\u2019s access to abortions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an obligation to the community and the people we serve to help protect their rights,\u201d Barker said. Comparing the bill in Utah to some of the \u201cheartbeat\u201d bills passed in other states, she said, \u201cIt\u2019s not as extreme, but it\u2019s still a ban. The government is taking away the choice of pregnant people to be able to make medical decisions that should be private and made between a patient and their doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoliticians should have no place in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Political science Assistant Professor Laura Gamboa-Gutierrez said a majority of abortion legislation has little to do with local abortion laws and much to do with an attempt at federal abortion bans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of these bills have less to do with local politics than national politics; they\u2019re designed to reach the Supreme Court and hopefully overturn Roe v. Wade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gamboa-Gutierrez said while abortion is a nationwide issue, it\u2019s especially prevalent in Utah, which mandates abstinence-based sex education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to tell what the Supreme Court will do,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m guessing these bills will move through the system, leaving us with two questions: Will SCOTUS pick them up? How will they decide on them if they do? Individual justices have their own ideological interests, but they also have judicial interests. It\u2019s not clear to me whether SCOTUS is ready to pick up such a contentious case and engage in a fight against Roe v. Wade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gamboa-Gutierrez said a ban on abortion will disproportionately affect low-income women, immigrants and racial minorities, as low-income women and racial minorities are more likely to experience unintended pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to sex education, contraception, childcare \u2013 all of these things feed the when and where and how to have a baby,\u201d she said. \u201cWhether life starts at conception or not is a philosophical and religious question. But we might actually reduce abortions by reducing reasons women have abortions in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barker also believes the money required to take the lawsuit through the courts could be better spent on sex education and \u201cfinding out why our maternal mortality rates are high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt costs millions of dollars to take a court case like through the courts,\u201d Barker said. \u201cIf the state loses, they are responsible for those fees and that\u2019s taxpayer money. I think that\u2019s a real shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mary Taylor, president of Pro-Life Utah, addressed the concern of the potential cost of a lawsuit, saying, \u201cThere is also an annual cost of doing nothing. There is no hard data on how much abortion is costing the state of Utah, but we do know enough to see clearly that the annual cost is substantial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor stated that costs of preterm birth due to a previous abortion as well as for physical complications, mental health and substance abuse increases in the second trimester of pregnancy are all direct costs to the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, there are societal and indirect costs associated with this as well,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cLet\u2019s not forget the human cost, which is at bare minimum, one human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether the joint challenge to Acton\u2019s bill is upheld remains to be seen, but Barker is optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump and his judicial nominations have helped anti-abortion politicians feel they have a chance that SCOTUS will rule differently than they have in the past,\u201d Barker said. \u201cI believe history is on our side. Ultimately, the courts will prevail in upholding constitutional precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>naomiyokoward@aggiemail.usu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>@naomiyokoward<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While recent abortion bans in Alabama and Missouri gain traction in national news, debate surrounding legislation that restricts access to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877964,"featured_media":19001817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22103891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How will the national abortion debate impact Utah? - The Utah Statesman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How will the national abortion debate impact Utah?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/how-will-the-national-abortion-debate-impact-utah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How will the national abortion debate impact Utah? 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