Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years defiantly opened Thursday despite an arson attack that ravaged it last year and an unclear future.
Wyoming has some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the U-S, which could lead to a quick closing to the Wellspring Health Access facility.
A first-in-the-nation abortion pill ban and a ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy remain pending while a lawsuit challenging them proceeds.
Until or unless those bans are upheld, the opening means women in the state now have a second resource for abortion care, including the first clinic to offer surgical abortions in Wyoming in at least a decade.
In 2012 Wyoming voters passed a constitutional amendment for their state saying that ‘competent adults have the right to make “their own” health decisions’. (Anti Affordable Care Act was reason)This amendment is why their recent abortion and mifepristone ban is being stopped by a judge who said that the new legislation is unconstitutional in Wyoming.