The capsule, named mifepristone, had been legally accessible for years. (Representational)
Washington, United States:
Wyoming on Friday grew to become the primary US state to ban using abortion drugs, the newest salvo in a marketing campaign by conservative-led states to roll again entry to abortion.
After signing the ban on abortion drugs, 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 imagine this query must be determined as quickly as potential in order that the difficulty of abortion in Wyoming could be lastly resolved, and that’s finest achieved with a vote of the individuals,” the Republican governor stated in an announcement.
The Wyoming motion comes amid a flurry of exercise throughout the nation by anti-abortion teams searching for to win a complete ban on abortions following a landmark Supreme Courtroom ruling final yr.
Additionally looming is a ruling in a federal courtroom in Texas, the place a decide is anticipated to resolve imminently on a potential nationwide ban on a broadly used abortion capsule.
The capsule, mifepristone, was permitted to be used by the Meals and Drug Administration greater than a decade in the past and has been legally accessible for years.
Texas decide Matthew Kacsmaryk may order the abortion capsule taken off the market throughout the nation.
Texas legislators are additionally contemplating a proposal that may not solely ban abortion drugs but in addition require web service suppliers within the state to dam entry to web sites the place such drugs are on the market by mail.
Gordon, the Wyoming governor, stated he wouldn’t again down within the battle towards abortion.
“I imagine all life is sacred and that each particular person, together with the unborn, needs to be handled with dignity and compassion,” Gordon stated in a letter Friday night to the secretary of state.
Because the US Supreme Courtroom 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 limit entry to mifepristone by requiring a doctor to supply it, in keeping with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive well being analysis group.
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