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House approves bill expanding conscience protections for health‑care workers and facilities
Summary
After extended debate, the Utah House passed HB353 to explicitly protect health‑care personnel and facilities from termination or participation in abortions based on moral or religious objections, with an EMTALA emergency exception; the measure passed 54–13.
The Utah House on March 7 approved House Bill 353, a measure the sponsor described as expanding conscience protections for health‑care workers and for health‑care facilities, including hospitals and clinics.
Representative Wimmer, the sponsor, told the chamber the bill would explicitly protect an individual health‑care provider from termination for refusing to participate in an abortion and extend similar conscience protections to institutions that adopt written policies of refusal, except where an emergency would require action under EMTALA, the federal emergency‑medical‑care law. "This law expands their…
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