New abortion legislation unveiled in the Utah Senate would eliminate rules that women be provided with a brochure and 1980s-era video on the procedure, replacing those materials with an interactive “information module” to be viewed on a digital tablet.
Senate Bill 118, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, also says doctors or other medical professionals who don’t provide the materials and certify a woman has viewed them could face a class A misdemeanor.
SB118 also adds requirements that the Utah Department of Health report any physician who does not comply with the new rules module — or other abortion law provisions — to the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, which oversees licensing for the state’s doctors.