Writing on official letterhead, 22 benighted Republican legislators and candidates had the temerity to demand health care providers “cease and desist” all abortions and threatened prosecution under Utah’s abortion trigger law, notwithstanding that the court has enjoined Utah from enforcing that law.
It is bad enough that the Legislature wants to shoehorn its way into executive branch functions by managing the development of the inland port and the former prison site at Point of the Mountain. It now wants to act as judge and prosecutor, too.
Instead of a power grab, legislators should focus on critical problems facing the state, such as saving the Great Salt Lake, climate change and homelessness.
Denise Chancellor, Salt Lake City
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