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Judge Strikes Down Wyoming Laws Banning Abortion, Abortion Pills

LOADING ERROR LOADING CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights. One Wyoming law that Owens said violated women’s rights under the state constitution bans abortion except …

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Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

Associated Press

— A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights. One Wyoming law that Owens said violated women’s rights under the state constitution bans abortion except to protect to a pregnant …

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Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including its explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

LA Times

Mifepristone, a medication used in combination to end a pregnancy, was banned under a law struck down by a state judge in Wyoming. A state judge this week struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy. One Wyoming law that Owens said violated women’s rights under the state …

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A judge is considering Wyoming abortion laws, including the first explicit US ban on abortion pills

Associated Press

— Attorneys for both sides in a challenge to Wyoming abortion restrictions that include the nation’s first explicit ban on medication to end pregnancy urged a judge Thursday to uphold or strike down the new laws without holding a trial. Wyoming’s abortion pill ban specifically bars any exception for “psychological or emotional conditions.” “When the state says they are trying …

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1 year ago

What to know about abortion lawsuits being heard in US courts this week

Associated Press

The Texas Supreme Court received a lot of attention this week when it rejected a woman’s request for an immediate abortion there due to harrowing pregnancy complications. On Monday, the Texas Supreme Court denied the request, saying she didn’t qualify for the exceptions to the abortion bans in state law. OHIO PROVIDERS CALL FOR BAN TO BE STRUCK DOWN AFTER …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Woman Who Set Fire To Wyoming Abortion Clinic Pleads Guilty To Arson

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An abortion opponent who told investigators that anxiety and nightmares about plans for Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years led her to break into and burn the facility pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday. Lorna Roxanne Green appears in a booking photo / The fire-damaged Wellspring Health Access clinic is cordoned …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Judge blocks Wyoming’s 1st-in-the-nation abortion pill ban while court decides lawsuit

Associated Press

— Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban them won’t take effect July 1 as planned while a lawsuit proceeds. Because abortion remains legal in Wyoming, banning abortion pills would require women to get more invasive surgical abortions instead, Marci Bramlet, an attorney for the ban …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Wyoming abortion clinic opens despite arson, legal obstacles

Associated Press

— Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years defiantly opened Thursday nearly one year after an arson attack ravaged it and despite looming laws that could shut it down with some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the U.S. With its fire damage repaired, the Wellspring Health Access clinic will be able to provide both abortion-pill and surgical abortions — …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Arrest made in fire at planned Wyoming abortion clinic

Associated Press

— A woman was arrested on charges of setting fire to a building in Wyoming that was being renovated to house the state’s only full-service abortion clinic, authorities said Wednesday, hours after a judge temporarily blocked a ban on abortion that went into effect a few days ago. The clinic had been scheduled to open last summer as the only …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Judge halts Wyoming abortion ban days after it took effect

Associated Press

— Abortion will again be legal in Wyoming — at least for now — after a judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a ban that took effect a few days earlier. Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens’ decision halts the ban amid a challenge in her court to a law that took effect Sunday. While the new overall abortion ban …

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2 years ago

Wyoming Supreme Court won’t weigh in on abortion ban for now

Associated Press

— The Wyoming Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on questions involving a lawsuit over the state’s new abortion ban, keeping the case that has prevented the ban from taking effect since last summer wholly in state district court at least for now. There’s not enough information in the “limited factual record” to answer all 12 legal questions Teton …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Judges Block Abortion Bans In Wyoming, North Dakota

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING CHEYENNE, Wyo. A judge in Wyoming on Wednesday sided with a firebombed women’s health clinic and others who argued the ban would harm health care workers and their patients, while a North Dakota judge sided with the state’s only abortion clinic, Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo. Natalie Behring via Getty Images Attorneys arguing before Teton County …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Courts block abortion bans in Wyoming, North Dakota

Associated Press

— Abortion bans set to take effect this week in Wyoming and North Dakota were temporarily blocked Wednesday by judges in those states amid lawsuits arguing that the bans violate their state constitutions. Attorneys arguing before Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens, in Jackson, Wyoming, disagreed over whether the state constitution provided a right to abortion that would nullify the …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Biden's sister Valerie claims Democrats are MORE 'pro-life' than Republicans

Daily Mail

President Joe Biden's sister Valerie Biden Owens said Democrats are more 'pro-life' than their Republican counterparts and they should have used that term for their abortion stance. 'I'm pro-choice, but I remain convinced that Democrats chose the wrong term for our side of the issue,' Owens writes in her new book, Growing Up Biden: A Memoir, which was released Tuesday. …

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Judge Strikes Down Wyoming Laws Banning Abortion, Abortion Pills

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including its explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

A judge is considering Wyoming abortion laws, including the first explicit US ban on abortion pills

What to know about abortion lawsuits being heard in US courts this week

Woman Who Set Fire To Wyoming Abortion Clinic Pleads Guilty To Arson

Judge blocks Wyoming’s 1st-in-the-nation abortion pill ban while court decides lawsuit

Wyoming abortion clinic opens despite arson, legal obstacles

Arrest made in fire at planned Wyoming abortion clinic

Judge halts Wyoming abortion ban days after it took effect

Wyoming Supreme Court won’t weigh in on abortion ban for now

Judges Block Abortion Bans In Wyoming, North Dakota

Courts block abortion bans in Wyoming, North Dakota

Biden's sister Valerie claims Democrats are MORE 'pro-life' than Republicans