Wyoming judge blocks ban on abortion pills -report
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[June 23, 2023]
(Reuters) - A Wyoming judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a law
banning medication abortion in the Western state, delaying what could be
the nation's first such ban while a lawsuit challenging it makes its way
through the courts, the Casper Star Tribune reported.
Wyoming's ban, one of numerous abortion restrictions passed by
Republican lawmakers in U.S. states in the year since the Supreme Court
ended the constitutional right to an abortion by overturning the
50-year-old Roe vs. Wade decision, was set to go into effect July 1.
It was challenged by medical providers and others, who said that the
measure would force women to have surgical abortions even though such
procedures are more invasive, the newspaper reported.
"Essentially the government under this law is making the decision for a
woman rather than the woman making her own health care choice," Ninth
District Court Judge Melissa Owens said, according to the newspaper.
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Protesters gather inside the South
Carolina House as members debate a new near-total ban on abortion
with no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest at the
state legislature in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. August 30, 2022.
REUTERS/Sam Wolfe/File Photo
Medication abortion, also called
medical abortion, involves taking two drugs, mifepristone and
misoprostol, to end a pregnancy.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Sonali Paul)
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