Wyoming Governor Signs Six-Week Abortion Ban

United States===Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed a bill banning abortions after embryonic cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks of gestation. This makes United States===Wyoming the fifth state to enact such a ban, joining United States===Florida, Georgia, United States===Iowa, and United States===South Carolina. Gordon expressed reservations about the law's lack of exceptions for rape or incest and its high likelihood of facing legal challenges, noting that the United States===Wyoming Supreme Court previously struck down a broader abortion ban. Julie Burkhart, president of Wellspring Health Access, United States===Wyoming's only abortion clinic, has announced plans to challenge the new ban in court, calling it an attack on constitutional freedom. The clinic has already begun referring patients further along in their pregnancies to out-of-state providers. This action follows the 2022 United States===Supreme Court of the United States ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing individual states to regulate abortion.