Voices: My ectopic pregnancy nearly killed me. Utah’s abortion laws must leave room for doctors to act.

A Utah resident argues in an op-ed that the state's abortion laws need to provide clearer exceptions for medical emergencies like ectopic pregnancies to ensure doctors can act quickly.
“I’m a lawyer. I understand the instinct to write statutory exceptions narrowly,” one Utahn writes in an op-ed. “But I know what it costs to build that certainty in real time, in a body quietly bleeding internally while everyone waits for enough proof.”
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