A judge in Utah has temporarily blocked Utah from enforcing a new law that would ban new licenses for abortion clinics in the state.
The law, HB 467, would have barred Utah from issuing licenses for any new abortion clinics and would have phased out existing licenses by 2024.
Planned Parenthood had sued to block the law, saying if the law went into effect, the licensing process for abortion clinics would be eliminated, making it impossible to legally obtain an abortion anywhere but in a hospital and some of their satellite clinics.
In doing so, this would violate the state constitution’s rights to privacy and bodily integrity, the abortion provider argued….