"A woman has a fundamental right to make her own health care decisions, including the decision to have an abortion,"
"In 2023, the state passed a near-total abortion ban with narrow exceptions for rape, incest, or to save the life of the pregnant person, as well as a first-of-its-kind ban on medication abortion. Abortion providers and advocates, including those from Wellspring Health Access-which was forced to delay its opening by a year after an arson attack in 2022 -sued the state, arguing the bans violated Wyoming's constitution."
"Ironically-and now fortuitously-Republicans in Wyoming were so pissed about Obamacare in 2012 that they changed their state constitution as a petty act of revolt. That amendment guarantees Wyomingites the right to make their own health care decisions. In 2024, Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens temporarily blocked both abortion bans, ruling that, yes, they were unconstitutional."
Wyoming's Supreme Court, in a 4-1 decision, invalidated the state's two abortion bans as violations of the state constitution. The opinion states that a woman has a fundamental right to make her own health care decisions, including the decision to have an abortion. The 2023 laws included near-total bans with narrow exceptions for rape, incest, or to save the pregnant person's life, and a ban on medication abortion. Providers and advocates sued after the laws passed and following earlier attacks on clinics. The court rejected the state's argument that abortion is not healthcare and found the State failed to meet its burden to justify the laws' infringement on the woman's fundamental right.
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