Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 1:58 PM EST, January 6, 2026


FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that two laws barring the procedure, including the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, violate the state constitution.

The justices sided with the state’s only abortion clinic and others who had sued over the abortion bans passed since 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Wyoming is one of the most conservative states, but the 4-1 ruling from justices all appointed by Republican governors was unsurprising in that it upheld every previous lower court ruling that the abortion bans violated the state constitution.

Wellspring Health Access in Casper, the abortion access advocacy group Chelsea’s Fund and four women, including two obstetricians, argued that the laws violated a state constitutional amendment ensuring competent adults have the right to make their own health care decisions.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-wyoming-ruling-legal-a8396f0ed4a3229eed5e9fea575be63e

[Ray Bruns]

1. I guess "letting the states decide" isn't turning out so well for the probirth side.

[Unwind Your Mind]

2. IIRC

That amendment came about in response to the ACA

[mpcamb]

3. And I would suspect, OB-Gyn docs fleeing from certain restrictive states.

[chouchou]

4. There are beings that don't have a choice regarding birth or not.

Livestock.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. In 1869, the first state to give women the right to vote.

William H. Bright introduced a bill to give women the right to vote in Wyoming. Passed by both chambers of the territorial legislature, the bill proposed: “That every woman of the age of twenty-one years, residing in this territory, may, at every election to be holden under the laws thereof, cast her vote. And her rights to the elective franchise and to hold office shall be the same under the election laws of the territory, as those of electors.” Approved on December 10, 1869, the bill became a law and women in Wyoming became the first in the country to legally have the full right to vote.

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