Wyoming Becomes First State To Ban Abortion Pills

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to specifically ban , as Republican Governor Mark Gordon signed a  making it illegal to “prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.” “My promise to protect the unborn has been fulfilled,” State Senator Tim Salazar, the sponsor of the legislation,  on social media Friday, noting that virtually all abortions in Wyoming are medication abortions.

The law, which takes effect in July, carries up to six months imprisonment, up to $9,000 in fines, and includes limited exceptions, including using such medication to treat “natural miscarriage.” In addition to the abortion pill ban on Friday, Gordon—one of several GOP governors to sign a “trigger ban” on abortion after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling last year —allowed another bill restricting abortion to be enacted without his signature, though he cautioned that legislation could get hung up in a court battle. “I understand the Legislature’s effort to improve Wyoming’s pro-life legal framework and preemptively clarify some of these legal questions,” Gordon wrote in a  to Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray. “However, I believe this question needs to be decided as soon as possible so that the issue of abortion in Wyoming can be finally resolved.” Medication abortion has been the front line of the fight for since the Supreme Court last June.

The Biden administration has sought to expand access to abortion pills in order to restore access to abortion in states where the procedure has been banned or severely restricted.

The anti-choice movement and its Republican allies, meanwhile, have made the medications—which account for more than half of abortions in America—their next target.