The state’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted a bill earlier this month that forbade the use or prescription of abortion drugs. Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed it into law on Friday.
Republican Governor Gordon signed the bill as a Texas federal judge weighs ordering a countrywide ban on the abortion drug mifepristone in response to a lawsuit brought by pro-life organizations.
The crux of the two-page Wyoming bill is a provision making it illegal to “prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.”
Prescription contraceptives known as “morning-after” pills, used after intercourse but before a pregnancy can be positively identified, are excluded from the ban.
However, any therapy required to save a woman “from an imminent peril that substantially endangers her life or health,” or to treat a “natural miscarriage according to currently accepted medical guidelines.” is exempt from the law.
The law is to be handled as a criminal misdemeanor, punishable by up to nine thousand dollars in fines and six months in jail.
A woman “upon whom a chemical abortion is performed or attempted shall not be criminally prosecuted,” according to the law.
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The governor declared that he was also permitting the enactment of a different state law enacted by lawmakers that forbade traditional abortions save in cases of rape or incest. This law was passed without his signature.
If a fetal anomaly is found to be deadly, a pregnancy may also be terminated under special circumstances.
Following a Supreme Court decision last year that nullified the important Roe v. Wade case from 1973 that legalized the procedure, legal battles over abortion rights have intensified in the United States.
