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Deseret News Share this story Spenser Heaps, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah legislator’s proposal to give contraceptives to jail inmates sparked a passionate debate Tuesday about whether birth control qualifies as essential health care or an elective medication. HB102 would require jailers to provide inmates with the contraceptives they were already taking before their incarceration. For women in the criminal justice system, 84% of their pregnancies are unintended compared to 50% of pregnancies overall, bill sponsor Rep. Jen Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City, told members of the Ho...

HB102 would require jailers to provide inmates with the contraceptives they were already taking before their incarceration. For women in the criminal justice system, 84% of their pregnancies are unintended compared to 50% of pregnancies overall, bill sponsor Rep. Jen Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City, told members of the House Health and Human Services Committee. While inmates usually don't get pregnant while they're in jail, the discontinuation of their birth control regimen creates risk if they have sex soon before or after as the average jail stay is 27 days — about the length of a woman'...

| Updated: 2:13 p.m. A Utah state representative is trying again to pass a bill that would allow women held in jails to be able to stay on their prescribed birth control, with the goal to prevent unwanted pregnancies. HB102, sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City, passed committee by a 9-3 vote Tuesday. It now goes to the House floor. “This is a really effective, efficient, humane way to avoid a lot of ... very bad outcomes for people and for children in this state,” Dailey-Provost said. “Because we want women to have babies when they want them. We absolutely want ...