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Wyoming Abortion Ban Overturned

What: A federal judge struck down Wyoming’s abortion ban, ruling it unconstitutional and granting access to abortion in the state.

Key line: “Judge Melissa Owens of Teton County District Court wrote in her ruling that both the ban on medication abortion and a broader ban against all methods of abortion ‘impede the fundamental right to make health care decisions for an entire class of people, pregnant women.’ She added, ‘The abortion statutes suspend a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions during the entire term of a pregnancy and are not reasonable or necessary to protect the health and general welfare of the people.’”

Source: New York Times // https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/health/wyoming-abortion-ban-overturned.html

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