"Senate Minority Leader Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, proposed a substitute that would repeal language allowing hospitals to decline to provide abortions — even in cases exempted from Utah's abortion ban — due to religious or moral reasons. Because HB467 requires hospitals to perform abortions, Escamilla expressed concern that rape victims and young children in rural areas would be unable to access abortion care if the only hospital in their area declined to perform legal abortions.
'I am not touching the policy,' Escamilla said, noting that she '100% disagrees' with the abortion ban, but is simply trying to work around the edges to protect pregnant people. 'I just want to make sure that as we are limiting this scope of practice that especially children will never have to have a situation where ... they can't get care.'"
~ Bridger Beal-Cvetko
"Utah bill to close abortion clinics passes Legislature"| KSL.com
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