Panelist cites driver's‑privilege figures, outlines prenatal‑education and Medicaid changes

Carrie Ann Lisenby, introduced to the forum as a panelist, presented data and several policy proposals addressing immigration enforcement as it relates to driver identification and a suite of pro‑life measures.

Lisenby said "there are about 33,500 noncitizens in the state of Utah who hold a driver's privilege card" and "about 66,000 noncitizens in Utah who hold a Real ID compliant driver's license," together accounting for what she estimated as roughly 100,000 documented noncitizens in the state. She described the driver's‑privilege application process as requiring a "10 fingerprint panel" and said proposed legislation will allow officers to arrest individuals who "refuse to identify themselves to the satisfaction of the officer." She also cited an audience‑attributed statistic that in one West Valley City review last year "50 percent of the hit and run accidents that were later identified were committed by noncitizens who did not have any identification." Those figures and enforcement proposals were presented by Lisenby as rationale for renewed legislation on driver identification.

On reproductive‑policy matters Lisenby described several pro‑life measures she supports: a prenatal‑instruction bill that would require anatomically correct videos showing prenatal development in high school health classes; a bill "to remove abortion clinics from the Medicaid provider list in Utah"; and an adoption amendment intended to strengthen protections for birth mothers. She also described state funding to support community providers: "over the last 2 years, given almost 1000000 dollars to the pregnancy resource centers in Utah," and she said ProLife Utah's program has "helped 154 babies." Lisenby framed these programs as alternatives to abortion and part of a strategy to "change hearts and minds" through education and services.

Lisenby criticized a judicial injunction on a 'trigger bill' and said without that injunction she believes outcomes would have been different; she told the audience that a judge's injunction had, in her words, resulted in "10000 babies [who] have died because of it," an assertion she attributed to the effect of the injunction and the litigation she described.

Lisenby invited attendees to follow up, said legislative staff and the governor's judicial appointment role matter for future outcomes, and encouraged supporters to contact legislators.