Wyoming governor signs bill to ban abortion pills

HAYENN, Wyoming. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed into law Friday night a bill banning abortion pills in the state and also allowed a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature.

In a statement, Gordon expressed concern that the latest legislation, dubbed Life Is a Human Rights Act, would result in a lawsuit that would “delay any decision on the constitutionality of Wyoming’s abortion ban.”

He noted that earlier in the day, plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit filed a protest against the new law in case it did not veto it.

“I believe this issue needs to be resolved as soon as possible so that the issue of abortion in Wyoming can be finally resolved, and this is best done through a vote of the people,” Republican Gordon said in a statement.

The Wyoming governor’s decision on abortion pills comes after they took center stage in Texas this week, where a federal judge raised the Christian group’s efforts to reverse a decade-long U.S. approval of the leading abortion drug, mifepristone.

In a statement, Wyoming ACLU director of advocacy Antonio Serrano criticized the governor’s decision to sign the bill.

“The health of the individual, not politics, should guide important medical decisions, including the decision to have an abortion,” Serrano said.

The combination of two tablets of mifepristone and another drug is the most common form of abortion in the US.

Medical abortion became the preferred method of terminating pregnancies in the US even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had defended the right to abortion for nearly five decades.

Fifteen states already have limited access to abortion pills, including six states requiring in-person doctor visits. These laws could withstand litigation; states have long had power over how doctors, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals practice medicine.

States also set rules for telemedicine consultations used to prescribe medications. Typically, this means that healthcare providers in states with restrictions on abortion pills could face sanctions, such as fines or license suspension, for trying to mail the pills.

Women are already traveling across state lines to places where abortion pills are easier to access. This trend is expected to increase.

Since Rowe’s ban on abortion last June, restrictions on abortion have been put in place by the states, and the tide has changed rapidly. Thirteen states now ban abortions at any stage of pregnancy, and another, Georgia, bans them when a heart is detected or at about six weeks pregnant.

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