Judge blocks Wyoming’s 1st-in-the-nation abortion pill ban while court decides lawsuit

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A judge has blocked Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation ban on abortion pills days before it was set to be implemented in July.

Wyoming’s new abortion laws allow exceptions to save life and for cases of rape or incest that are reported to police. But abortion for other reasons isn’t health care under the amendment, Jay Jerde, an attorney for the state, argued.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs later questioned how the state could know the motives of women getting abortions. “Medication abortion is safe, effective, and has been approved by the FDA for more than two decades," Burkhart said. In recent years, abortions using two kinds of pills, usually taken days apart, have become the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S., in part because the process offers a less invasive alternative to surgical abortions. Until Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed the legislation outlawing medication abortions, no state had passed a law specifically prohibiting abortion pills, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

 

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