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Utah Gov Signs Abortion Anesthesia Bill

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First state to enact new requirement.

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Office of Governor Herbert/Handout via Reuters

Utah’s Republican Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law Monday evening a bill making his state the first to require doctors to give anesthesia to women having an abortion once they are 20 weeks into a pregnancy. The law is based on the disputed premise that the fetus can feel pain, leading many health-care professionals to worry such a law will increase risks for women by mandating they have an unnecessarily heavy sedation.

Read it at The Salt Lake Tribune