Wyoming judge knocks down sweeping state abortion ban

Published November 18, 2024 10:30pm ET



A Wyoming judge struck down the state’s sweeping abortion ban that included a first-in-the-country prohibition on medication to induce the procedure.

Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens struck down two laws — a ban on most abortions and the United States’s first explicit ban on the use of medication to abort a pregnancy. She ruled that the laws were unconstitutional, as they “impede the fundamental right to make healthcare decisions for an entire class of people, pregnant women.”

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