“My promise to protect the unborn has been fulfilled,” said Wyoming senator Tim Salazar after the state approved a ban on abortion pills.
making it illegal to “prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.”on social media Friday, noting that virtually all abortions in Wyoming are medication abortions.
The law, which takes effect in July, carries up to six months imprisonment, up to $9,000 in fines, and includes limited exceptions, including using such medication to treat “natural miscarriage.
Medication abortion has been the front line of the fight for reproductive health care since the Supreme Court overturnedlast June. The Biden administration has sought to expand access to abortion pills in order to restore access to abortion in states where the procedure has been banned or severely restricted. The anti-choice movement and its Republican allies, meanwhile, have made the medications — which account for more than half of abortions in America — their next target.
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