Medication abortion will remain legal in Wyoming for now after a district judge on Thursday blocked the state’s ban on abortion pills, according to the Casper Star-Tribune
The law, intended to take effect July 1, would have prohibited the prescription, sale and use of abortion pills – the first such measure in the nation. It joins the state’s near-total abortion ban, which has also been halted as legal challenges play out. The Teton County District Court clerk’s office confirmed to CNN that district judge Melissa Owens had held a three-hour hearing in the case Thursday and issued a verbal order from the bench.
“Essentially the government under this law is making the decision for a woman rather than the woman making her own health care choice, which is what the overwhelming majority in Wyoming decided that we should get to do,” Owens said during the hearing, the newspaper reported. Owens had also temporarily blocked the state’s near-total ban in March, with a full trial set for April 2024. The abortion pills ban, signed by Republican Gov.
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