Abortion

Utah hospital won't terminate pregnancies in cases of fatal fetal deformity

Published in Women's Health Law Weekly, May 23rd, 2004

University Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, no longer will terminate pregnancies in cases involving fatal fetal deformities, fearing it could lose state funding under a new anti-abortion law. Other hospitals may do the same.

Cases such as anencephaly, where babies develop without a brain, will be referred to abortion clinics or out-of-state hospitals, or the women will have to carry the babies to term.

A bill enacted by the Utah's 2004 Legislature cuts off state funding to any agency that performs abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or "permanent, irreparable, and grave damage to a major bodily function of the pregnant woman."

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Source: Women's Health Law Weekly (2004-05-23)

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