Wyoming becomes the first US state to ban abortion pills
In addition, the state governor has announced the Law ‘Life is a Human Right’, which proposes to prohibit abortion in almost any circumstance and would classify the interruption of a pregnancy as a serious crime.
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He wyoming state has become the first in the United States to ban abortion pills amid a growing conservative push to repeal abortion rights in the country and that began when the Supreme Court revoked in June 2022 the legal precedent that allowed the interruption of pregnancy since 1973.
After both houses of the state Congress ratified the ban on abortion pills that allow the interruption of pregnancy up to 70 days after the last period, the governor of Wyoming, Mark Gordon, has ratified the bill this Friday, reported ‘Wyo File’.
“As I noted, I have a strong record of protecting the lives of the unborn, as well as their mothers (…) I believe all life is sacred and that all people, including the unborn, should be treated with dignity and compassion,” Gordon said in a letter defending the measure to Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray.
Despite the fact that there are states in the United States that have almost total bans on abortion — and which already prohibit this type of pill — Wyoming has been the first to carry out an explicit regulation of these drugs.
In this sense, the state governor has announced that he will allow another measure to go ahead, the so-called Law ‘Life is a Human Right’which proposes to prohibit abortion in almost any circumstance and which would classify the interruption of a pregnancy as a serious crime.
Wyoming’s abortion drug restriction comes as a Texas judge awaits a preliminary ruling that could order the US Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval of mifepristoneone of the most used pills for the termination of pregnancy, according to ‘The New York Times’.
If the ruling were to go ahead, it would affect states across the country, including those where abortion is legal, as well as states with bans and restrictions.
Source: Eitb
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