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Utah Senate approves 18‑week abortion limit with specified exceptions
Summary
The Senate passed first substitute House Bill 136, limiting elective abortions after 18 weeks gestation while preserving statutory exceptions for maternal life, serious impairment, fatal fetal defects and severe brain abnormalities. Debate was lengthy and partisan, and the bill will be returned to the House.
The Utah Senate on March 13 passed first substitute House Bill 136, which prohibits elective abortions after 18 weeks’ gestation while retaining enumerated exceptions, including when the mother’s life is at risk, serious impairment of major bodily functions, fatal fetal defects and a newly specified exception for severe brain abnormality.
Sponsor Sen. Sandra Henderson said the bill ‘‘preserves the woman's right to choose to have an abortion for any…
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