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Wyoming's ban on abortion pills blocked days before law takes effect
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Date:2024-12-24 03:00:24
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.
Attorneys for Wyoming failed to show that allowing the ban to take effect on schedule wouldn't harm the lawsuit's plaintiffs before their lawsuit can be resolved, Teton County Judge Melissa Owens ruled.
While 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.
Two nonprofit organizations, including an abortion clinic that opened in Casper in April; and four women, including two obstetricians, have sued to challenge the law. They asked Owens to suspend the ban while their lawsuit plays out.
The plaintiffs are also suing to stop a new, near-total ban on abortion in the state.
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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