Utah bill would impose a pre-abortion ultrasound requirement

Women in Utah would have to undergo an ultrasound as a prerequisite to an abortion under a bill unveiled Wednesday in the Legislature.Moreover, the physician or technician performing the ultrasound would have to describe “the presence and location of each unborn child in the uterus," display the images so that a woman can see them and make the fetal heartbeat audible to the woman, if possible, the legislation states.The bill, sponsored by freshman Rep. Steve Christiansen, stipulates that n