Abortions in all but earliest weeks now illegal in Wyoming, as new court battle brews

[RandySF]

Gov. Mark Gordon signed into law Monday a measure that would ban abortions in Wyoming in all but the earliest weeks of pregnancy. The governor affirmed in a letter his “pro-life” commitment but also cautioned that the new law will likely land in court again.

The law bans abortions in the case of a “detectable fetal heartbeat,” which can come as early as six weeks.

Gordon predicted that the new law will likely end “in the all too familiar and unfortunate territory of pro-life litigation,” an apparent reference to a multi-year court fight over a pair of 2023 abortion bans that ended in January when the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional.

The measure, Gordon wrote in his signing letter, doesn’t “offer the durable solution” he had hoped for. He referenced the fact that lawmakers declined to bring forward a constitutional amendment to address the fact that the high court ruled the state constitution doesn’t allow for an outright ban on abortion.



https://wyofile.com/abortions-in-all-but-earliest-weeks-now-illegal-in-wyoming-as-new-court-battle-brews/

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Women were the first to fall in this fascist regime.

And there was hardly a sound.