Temporary restraining order granted for latest unconstitutional abortion ban
Immediately after the 6-week ban was passed in March, we started fighting back. On Friday, April 24, the district court in Natrona County granted our request for a temporary restratining order meaning that abortion is once again legal in Wyoming while the legal challenge to it proceeds.
From Wyofile:
"The law in question, which was passed by the Wyoming Legislature during the 2026 session and took effect in March, bans abortion in all but the earliest days of pregnancy. More specifically, the “heartbeat” law makes abortion illegal beyond approximately the sixth week of pregnancy, when it’s first possible to detect fetal cardiac activity.
The plaintiffs in the case, which include the few providers who perform abortions in Wyoming, argue the law is unconstitutional due to language in the state constitution that protects an individual’s right to make their own health care decisions.
Those protections were also the basis for the Wyoming Supreme Court’s January decision to strike down two previous abortion bans."
The plaintiffs, however, “made a sufficient showing of irreparable injury,” Judge Forgey wrote in his Friday decision temporarily halting the law’s enforcement. " (Read the whole article here)
We've said it before and we'll say it again: HB126 is a bare faced attempt to control Wyoming women and families with flimsy and/or non-existent arguments that will harm women, the health profession and the state of Wyoming. This law undermines medical expertise and the individual freedoms of Wyoming citizens. It is a direct attack on individual freedom, privacy, the practice of medicine and patient reproductive health outcomes.
Research tells us that abortion bans lead to more unwanted or unsafe pregnancies carried to term, resulting in an increase maternal and infant deaths.
Abortion bans kill women, bankrupt families and infringe on the rights of all of us. As we fight this latest attack, know that Chelsea’s Fund is still here to support abortion seekers in Wyoming.
