The decision is raising concerns about how already overburdened hospitals will accommodate becoming the only place for legal abortions in the state.
the law would protect “the innocent” and “the unborn," adding that they don’t think the state needs the clinics after the high court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
If clinics stop providing abortions, experts are concerned hospitals’ comparatively higher cost of care and staffing shortages will make it harder to get legal abortions in Utah, even though the law isn’t explicitly a restriction on those seeking them in the state, where they remain legal up to 18 weeks.
“You have to draw from a pool that may or may not be sympathetic to abortion, unlike in a clinic where you don’t go to work at unless you’re committed to abortion being part of health care,” Joffe said.
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