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Mackenzie Ryan in Salt Lake City

‘An inequality story’: Utah abortion ban will drive women further into poverty

People attend an abortion-rights protest at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City on 24 June 2022.
People attend an abortion-rights protest at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City on 24 June 2022. Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP

“I was horrified.”

Utah State Representative Angela Romero had long known that if the supreme court ruled to overturn Roe v Wade, her state’s trigger law would come into effect and elective abortions would quickly be banned. But, even armed with that knowledge she still couldn’t believe that scenario had become reality.

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