Some people may tell you that a couple of bills passed by the Utah Legislature will reduce the number of legal abortions performed in the state.
In fact, one measure that may do the most to cut down on the number of abortions the only reasonable way a state can — by helping women to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies — wasn’t even passed this year. It was an act of the 2018 session, that year’s Senate Bill 184, which made it legal for women to get various forms of contraception from a pharmacists rather than require a prescription from a physician.