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LOGAN, Utah (LifeSiteNews) — Planned Parenthood has temporarily closed an abortion facility in northern Utah due to what it says are “staffing issues,” as the state Supreme Court deliberates its coming ruling on Utah’s abortion trigger ban.
The abortion giant’s facility in Logan, the only location that offers abortions in Utah outside Salt Lake County, “temporarily” closed on March 18 according to a Facebook post from a client, only days after Governor Spencer Cox signed a law banning abortion facilities and otherwise heavily restricting the procedure.
The “Abortion Changes” law, HB 467, has been blocked by a district court judge pending the Utah Supreme Court decision on the previously signed abortion trigger law, which has also been blocked.
The Logan facility, which offers contraception and abortion pills but not surgical abortions, has indicated on its website under “Hours” that it is “closed until further notice,” but has not otherwise announced the closure to its patients, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
A Planned Parenthood spokesperson told the Tribune that the estimated re-opening date is August 1 and that the closure is
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