Editing Utah (section)

===Women's rights===

{{Further|Women's suffrage in Utah}}

Utah granted full [[suffrage|voting rights]] to women in 1870, 26 years before becoming a state. Among all U.S. states, only Wyoming granted [[Women's suffrage|suffrage to women]] earlier.<ref>National Constitution Center, [http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html Map: States grant women the right to vote] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814035603/http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html |date=August 14, 2007 }}</ref> However, in 1887 the initial [[Edmunds-Tucker Act]] was passed by Congress to curtail Mormon influence in the territorial government. One of the provisions of the Act was the repeal of women's suffrage; full suffrage was not returned until Utah was admitted to the Union in 1896.

Utah is one of the 15 states that have not ratified the U.S. [[Equal Rights Amendment]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/ratified.htm |title=Thirty-Five States Have Ratified the Equal Rights Amendment |website=equalrightsamendment.org |access-date=August 3, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325173052/http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/ratified.htm |archive-date=March 25, 2012  }}</ref> [[Abortion in Utah]] is legal prior to the 18th week of pregnancy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Utah |url=https://reproductiverights.org/maps/state/utah |website=Center for Reproductive Rights |access-date=20 September 2024}}</ref>