Abortion stays legal in Wyoming
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Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down two laws that include the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills.
The Wyoming Supreme Court knocked down two abortion restrictions Tuesday — one of which is the nation’s first targeted ban of abortion pills — finding that they violate the state constitution. Specifically,
President Donald Trump won Wyoming by 46 points in 2024, a wider margin than in any other state — so it is more than a little surprising that abortion is legal there. It turns out, moreover, that abortion is legal in Wyoming entirely because of a largely performative state constitutional amendment enacted in 2012 to undercut the Affordable Care Act,