By Mackenzie Ryan, Image: Rick Bowmer/AP, The Guardian, July 11, 2022
“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.
The district Romero represents sits on the west side of Salt Lake City, an area that stands in stark economic and cultural contrast to the predominantly white, wealthy suburbs on thecity’s east side.
With access to abortion newly restricted, Romero was “especially concerned about marginalized communities, communities of color, and this forcing them to stay in poverty”, she said at her office in Salt Lake City on Tuesday afternoon.
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