GOP’s anti-Obamacare push helps overturn Wyoming abortion ban
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state’s two near-total abortion bans were unconstitutional. One law banned all abortions except extreme circumstances such as protecting a pregnant woman’s life and cases involving rape or incest. The other law banned the sale, prescription and distribution of abortion-inducing drugs — the first of its kind in the US. Both passed in 2023, one year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling. The Wyoming Supreme Court found Tuesday that both these laws violated a 2012 state constitutional amendment. Pushed by Wyoming Republicans in the wake of the passage of the Affordable Care Act and added into the state constitution by voter referendum, the amendment states that “each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions.” “That’s what this is about, my fellow senators, I think it’s about choice, about whether you’re free to choose it, about whether you’re free not to choose it,” state Sen. Drew Perkins said in 2011, referring to private healthcare …
