Life is a Human Right Act
State’s 2022 report didn’t record all procedures. Here’s why.
CASPER — The Wyoming Department of Health’s 2022 report didn’t capture all abortions in the state. The number of women who received abortions in Wyoming doubled last year to 200, according to the Department of Health’s official 2022...
JACKSON — The next hearing in the case challenging two Wyoming abortion bans has been set for July 31. Abortion access advocates requested the hearing to hash out how much evidence can be introduced in the case to address claims like lawmakers’ intent in passing the bans.
Teton County District...
CODY — The last year has brought several heartening victories for pro-life advocates, both nationally and statewide. But their battle is not over.
That was the message shared during the Park County Right to Life March and Rally in Cody on Saturday.
“Since 2019, laws banning or severely...
SHERIDAN – Sheridan City Councilor Andrew Patceg begins each regular meeting reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, with an addition.
“...With liberty and justice for all — born and unborn,” he says.
Patceg isn’t the first to say those three extra words; he said he first heard it from Wyoming State...
JACKSON — Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens ruled Friday against four anti-abortion advocates seeking to intervene in the legal battle after saying there was no room in the courtroom for rehashing the political debate.
Owens noted that the activists had the opportunity to make their...
JACKSON — As Wyoming defends its new ban on medication abortions, the state is arguing in court filings that abortions are not health care and the Legislature has the authority to decide which medical services are available in Wyoming.
In 2020 and 2021, the last two years for which reports are...
JACKSON — Abortion is sounding a lot like health care, according to a Teton County judge who halted the state’s ban against it.
In a 32-page temporary restraining order filed this week, Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens found that six plaintiffs made a “sufficient showing” that an...
JACKSON – A group of intervenors hoping to defend Wyoming’s new abortion ban has grown from three to four, with Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray joining two lawmakers and an anti-abortion advocacy group.
The intervenors are arguing that the Attorney General’s Office is offering “inadequate...
JACKSON — For the second time in eight months, Judge Melissa Owens has halted Wyoming lawmakers’ efforts to ban access to abortion.
Both times, the Teton County 9th District Court judge has ruled that the abortion bans may violate the Wyoming Constitution and cause the plaintiffs irreparable harm...
CASPER – Anti-abortion lawmakers in Wyoming celebrated a historic win following the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade over the summer, vowing to further restrict the procedure by next deleting the rape and incest exemptions in the trigger abortion ban that the Legislature had passed...
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