On April 8, 2025, we will finally get a hearing on our motion for preliminary injunction to stop enforcement of the two laws passed this legislature to make getting an abortion in Wyoming more difficult. One law requires an ultrasound and 48 hour delay prior to getting a medication abortion. The other law sets onerous and unnecessary standards for a facility providing “surgical” abortions. Studies have shown doctors accurately assess whether an ultrasound is necessary; requiring one for every person provides no better, safer outcomes and merely establishes financial and logistical barriers. Likewise, a 48 hour delay is demeaning to the person seeking abortion care. They do not need government telling them to take a “time out” before deciding to have an abortion. The surgical facilities requirements set up excessive requirements that offices of private doctors do not need to meet when doing other equally or even more invasive procedures such as vasectomies and hysteroscopies.
We have now re-filed our lawsuit challenging HB 42 (regulation of surgical facilies) and HB 64 (ultrasound requirement & 48 hr delay for medication abortion) in Teton County District Court, having waited for over a week with no hearing date set for a TRO in Natrona County District Court. We are hopeful of getting a TRO hearing soon. Over 70 people have been already been unable to get care at Wellspring. Others are having to jump medically unnecessary hoops to get medication abortion care. Our pleadings are available on our Litigation page.
Although Wellspring Health Access is temporarily not providing abortions as HB 42 has taken effect and we await a court hearing, medication abortion is still legal and available in Wyoming. Just The Pill continues to provide Telehealth medication abortion. We believe St. John’s Family Practice in Jackson continues to provide. Medication abortion also remains fully available from reliable online providers like Abuzz, The MAP, and Aid Access, easily found at plancpills.org. Call/text us at 307-438-9272 for help accessing medication or procedural abortion.
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Preliminary Injunction Hearing 4/8/2025
/in Abortion Ban LitigationOn April 8, 2025, we will finally get a hearing on our motion for preliminary injunction to stop enforcement of the two laws passed this legislature to make getting an abortion in Wyoming more difficult. One law requires an ultrasound and 48 hour delay prior to getting a medication abortion. The other law sets onerous and unnecessary standards for a facility providing “surgical” abortions. Studies have shown doctors accurately assess whether an ultrasound is necessary; requiring one for every person provides no better, safer outcomes and merely establishes financial and logistical barriers. Likewise, a 48 hour delay is demeaning to the person seeking abortion care. They do not need government telling them to take a “time out” before deciding to have an abortion. The surgical facilities requirements set up excessive requirements that offices of private doctors do not need to meet when doing other equally or even more invasive procedures such as vasectomies and hysteroscopies.
We have now re-filed our lawsuit challenging HB 42 (regulation of surgical facilies) and HB 64 (ultrasound requirement & 48 hr delay for medication abortion) in Teton County District Court, having waited for over a week with no hearing date set for a TRO in Natrona County District Court. We are hopeful of getting a TRO hearing soon. Over 70 people have been already been unable to get care at Wellspring. Others are having to jump medically unnecessary hoops to get medication abortion care. Our pleadings are available on our Litigation page.
Abortion still legal, available in Wyoming.
/in Abortion Ban LitigationAlthough Wellspring Health Access is temporarily not providing abortions as HB 42 has taken effect and we await a court hearing, medication abortion is still legal and available in Wyoming. Just The Pill continues to provide Telehealth medication abortion. We believe St. John’s Family Practice in Jackson continues to provide. Medication abortion also remains fully available from reliable online providers like Abuzz, The MAP, and Aid Access, easily found at plancpills.org. Call/text us at 307-438-9272 for help accessing medication or procedural abortion.