Tue Mar 14, 2023 – 4:34 pm EDT
WEST WENDOVER, Nevada (LifeSiteNews) — A proposed abortion facility near the border of Nevada is in limbo as local leaders battle over whether to make their small town a magnet for abortion seekers from neighboring Utah.
Earlier this month, Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said he intends to sign a law requiring that abortions only be performed in hospitals rather than dedicated abortion clinics, licenses for which will no longer be issued or renewed. While far milder than the straightforward abortion bans of other states, abortion chain Planned Parenthood has expressed fear that the legislation could “functionally eliminate abortion.” (Utah also has a trigger law that would ban most abortions, but it remains blocked in court.)
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that regional PP affiliate Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (PPMM) intends to compensate for the new law by constructing a new abortion facility in West Wendover, Nevada, a border town far closer to Salt Lake City than the next-closest existing centers in Las Vegas or Glenwood Springs, Colorado. (The state PP affiliate, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, is reportedly not officially involved in the plan.)
However, the plan
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