Wyoming turns into first US state to ban abortion capsules

Wyoming on Friday grew to become the primary US state to ban the usage of abortion capsules, the newest salvo in a marketing campaign by conservative-led states to roll again entry to abortion.

After signing the ban on abortion capsules, Wyoming Governor, Mark Gordon, appealed to legislators to behave additional by proposing a complete ban on abortion be added to the state structure after which placing it earlier than voters for approval.

“I consider this query must be determined as quickly as doable in order that the problem of abortion in Wyoming may be lastly resolved, and that’s greatest performed with a vote of the folks,” the Republican governor stated in a press release.

The Wyoming motion comes amid a flurry of exercise throughout the nation by anti-abortion teams in search of to win a complete ban on abortions following a landmark Supreme Court docket ruling final yr.

Additionally looming is a ruling in a federal courtroom in Texas, the place a decide is predicted to resolve imminently on a doable nationwide ban on a extensively used abortion tablet.

The tablet, mifepristone, was accepted to be used by the Meals and Drug Administration greater than a decade in the past and has been legally obtainable for years.

Texas decide Matthew Kacsmaryk might order the abortion tablet taken off the market throughout the nation.

Texas legislators are additionally contemplating a proposal that might not solely ban abortion capsules but in addition require web service suppliers within the state to dam entry to web sites the place such capsules are on the market by mail.

Gordon stated he wouldn’t again down within the combat in opposition to abortion.

“I consider all life is sacred and that each particular person, together with the unborn, ought to be handled with dignity and compassion,” Gordon stated in a letter Friday night to the secretary of state.

For the reason that US Supreme Court docket final yr overturned a 1973 ruling that established abortion as a constitutional proper, anti-abortion activists have sought methods to enshrine a ban throughout the nation.

About 15 states already prohibit entry to mifepristone by requiring a doctor to offer it, in response to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive well being analysis group.

AFP