Wyoming’s new abortion laws allow exceptions to save life and for cases of rape or incest that are reported to police. The amendment passed in response to the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s health care law, says Wyoming residents have the right to make their own health care decisions.
Texas gunman to be sentenced for killing 23 people in a racist Walmart attackĪ state constitutional amendment enacted in 2012 also came into play in court arguments. One of the groups, Wellspring Health Access, opened as the state's first full-service abortion clinic in years in April following an arson attack in 2022. Wyoming's pill ban is being challenged by four women, including two obstetricians, and two nonprofit organizations. Supreme Court ruled in April that access to one of the two pills, mifepristone, may continue while litigants seek to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of it.
While other states have instituted de facto bans on the medication by broadly prohibiting abortion, only Wyoming has specifically banned abortion pills. Meanwhile, those plaintiffs “have clearly showed probable success on the merits,” Owens said. Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban them won’t take effect July 1 as planned while a lawsuit proceeds.Īttorneys for Wyoming failed to show that the ban wouldn’t harm the plaintiffs before their lawsuit is resolved, Teton County Judge Melissa Owens ruled after hearing arguments from both sides.
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