Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled on 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.
and four women, including two obstetricians, have sued to challenge the law. They asked Owens to suspend the ban while their lawsuit plays out.Both new laws were enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year. Since then, some 25 million women and teenagers have been subjected to either stricter controls on ending their pregnancies or almost total bans on the procedure.
Owens combined the two Wyoming lawsuits against new restrictions into one case. Owens suspended the state's general abortion ban days after it took effect in March.
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Judge to weigh suspending Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation ban on abortion pillsWyoming's first-in-the-nation ban on abortion pills will come before a state judge Thursday as the court considers whether the prohibition should take effect as planned July 1 or be put on hold pending the outcome of a lawsuit.
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Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation abortion pill ban blocked before it was set to take effectA judge has blocked Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation ban on abortion pills days before it was set to be implemented in July. While several states have banned abortion outright or restricted access to abortion pills, Wyoming in March became first state with an explicit ban on abortion pills. Teton County Judge Melissa Owens issued the ruling after hearing arguments Thursday for and against allowing the ban to take effect pending the outcome of the lawsuit. The ban had been set to take effect July 1. The ban would limit services at two Wyoming clinics including one that opened in Casper in April.
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Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation abortion pill ban blocked before it was set to take effectWhile other states have instituted de facto bans on the medication by broadly prohibiting abortion, Wyoming in March became the first U.S. state to specifically ban abortion pills.
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Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation abortion pill ban blocked before it was set to take effectWhile other states have instituted de facto bans on the medication by broadly prohibiting abortion, Wyoming in March became the first U.S. state to specifically ban abortion pills.
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Virginia Voters Just Replaced an Anti-Abortion Man With a Pro-Abortion Woman in Critical PrimaryLashrecse Aird defeated the last anti-abortion Democrat, Joe Morrissey, in the Virginia Senate primary on Tuesday, delivering a big win for reproductive rights.
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New York bill would protect doctors who send abortion pills across state linesDoctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is illegal would be provided with legal protection under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The measure will be considered by Gov. Kathy Hochul. It is among a wave of state-level abortion bills considered nationwide in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion. Advocates say the New York bill, if approved, would allow women in states around the country get abortion pills more safely and quickly.
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