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(LifeSiteNews) – A Utah judge has temporarily blocked Utah’s pro-life trigger law for two weeks, pending another hearing to determine whether the restraining order should stand.
The injunction came in an emergency hearing Monday in response to a request from the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah’s request for a temporary hold on Utah’s “trigger” abortion ban passed in 2020. Utah’s ban would outlaw abortion at all stages of pregnancy in most cases.
Exceptions are made for cases of rape or incest reported to law enforcement, when necessary to save the mother’s life or to prevent “serious risk” of irreversible injury, or if two doctors who practice “maternal fetal medicine” conclude that the baby “has a defect that is uniformly diagnosable and uniformly lethal” or “a severe brain abnormality that is uniformly diagnosable.”
3rd District Court Judge Andrew Stone defended his ruling by arguing that “The immediate effects that will occur
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