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Utah House adopts bill to codify anonymized abortion reporting after weeks of debate and an amendment
Summary
The House passed Senate Bill 60 to enshrine collection of anonymized abortion statistics in state law, add ethnicity/race language, and preserve state access to the data; the measure passed 56–17 after floor amendments and extended debate about privacy and use of the data.
The Utah House of Representatives on the floor passed Senate Bill 60 on a 56–17 vote after extended debate and a successful amendment to clarify race and ethnicity reporting. Representative Grover, the House sponsor, told colleagues the bill does not change abortion policy but brings already-collected, anonymous reporting forms into state code so the Department of Health and lawmakers can access the data locally.
Advocates for the measure, including Representative Christiansen, framed the bill as a tool for understanding social drivers of abortion and said better data would inform prevention and education…
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