How an Anti-Obamacare Amendment Kept Abortion Legal in Deep Red Wyoming

The Wyoming Supreme Court made the correct decision on abortion

On Tuesday, the Equality State lived up to its title. Opinion I shrieked when I read the opinion, teared up a bit and then my phone started blowing up. Texts, emails and notifications began rolling in from friends across the state and the country expressing unified joy. A simple truth we have long advocated for has been affirmed and spelled out in plain language by our Wyoming Supreme Court: Abortion is health care. Now, I recognize that not ev…

How an anti-Obamacare amendment kept abortion legal in deep red Wyoming

The Wyoming Supreme Court has voted to keep abortion legal in the most conservative state in America. Their ruling said the laws barring abortion procedures violate the state’s constitution. Wyoming ruling The state has only one in-person abortion clinic, located in Casper. That clinic sued over a law passed in 2023 by the Republican-led legislature that banned abortion at any stage of pregnancy. That law did include exceptions for rape, incest …

Abortion pill ban is unconstitutional, Wyoming’s top court rules

The Wyoming Supreme Court invalidated the state’s near-total abortion ban and abortion pill law, ruling they violate the state constitution.

Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion May Stay Legal Due to Obamacare Amendment

The Supreme Court of Wyoming, on Jan. 6, ruled that two state laws banning the procedure and the availability of abortion medication were unconstitutional. The court, in the case of State v. Johnson, held that the two laws in question—the Life is a Human Right Act of 2023, which bans abortion procedures, and the state’s abortion drug ban—violated Article 1, Section 38 of the Constitution of Wyoming. That provision of the state constitution was a…

GOP trap backfires as red state’s highest court kills abortion bans

One of the most heavily Republican states in America will continue to have legal abortion — thanks to a major oversight in a constitutional amendment the state GOP originally pushed as a means of blocking the Affordable Care Act. According to The Associated Press, “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. W…

GOP trap backfires as red state's highest court kills abortion bans

One of the most heavily Republican states in America will continue to have legal abortion — thanks to a major oversight in a constitutional amendment the state GOP originally pushed as a means of blocking the Affordable Care Act.According to The Associated Press, "The justices sided with the state’s...