Poll: 52% Of Utahns Oppose Law Requiring All Abortions In Hospitals

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A new poll finds 52-percent of Utahns don’t approve of a 2023 law requiring all abortions to be performed in hospitals. The latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll also found that 46-percent of people surveyed approve of an earlier law banning elective abortions and allowing the procedure only under limited circumstances. The law passed in 2020 allows abortions only if the mother’s life is at risk or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. It also allows abortions if two doctors determine that the fetus has what the law terms a “lethal” birth defect of severe brain abnormality. The law bans elective abortions.