Abortion will again be legal in Wyoming — at least for now — after a judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a ban that took effect a few days earlier.
Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens' decision halts the ban amid a challenge in her court to a law that took effect Sunday. The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the law despite earlier rulings by Owens that had blocked a previous ban since shortly after it took effect last summer.
An amendment in the Wyoming Constitution says adults have a right to make their own health care decisions, so Republicans enacted a ban that states abortion is not health care."The state can not legislate away a constitutional right. It's not clear whether abortion is health care. The court has to then decide that," Owens said in an oral decision given at the end of an hourslong hearing.
In Wyoming, two nonprofits, two doctors and two other women have sued to block the state's broader abortion ban. Even Gordon, in allowing the overall abortion ban to become law without his signature, expressed concern it didn't resolve the constitutional question, Robinson noted. Wyoming has only one abortion provider, a women's health clinic in Jackson that only provides medication abortions but had been forced to stop after the state's broad ban took effect this week.
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