The new ban, which prohibits any prescription, distribution or use of medication abortion, carries a penalty of up to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $9,000.
Abortion rights adovcates gather in front of the J Marvin Jones Federal Building and Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, on March 15, 2023.
Wyoming has banned the abortion pill, becoming the first state to specifically outlaw using medication for abortion in the “Prohibiting chemical abortions” bill that became state law on Friday. Gov. Mark Gordon signed the bill the same day he said he would not veto another statewide abortion ban, a near-total
which makes providing abortion a felony and goes into effect this Sunday. The medication abortion ban will go into effect July 1., it is illegal to “to prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion,” and anyone found to be violating the rule can be imprisoned for up to six months, fined $9,000, or both.
Gordon said he believed the new laws will likely be challenged in court and urged a state referendum on abortion, per the Washington Post. “I believe this question needs to be decided as soon as possible so that the issue of abortion in Wyoming can be finally resolved, and that is best done with a vote of the people,” he
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