Tue Mar 7, 2023 – 4:30 pm ESTTue Mar 7, 2023 – 4:33 pm EST
CHEYENNE (LifeSiteNews) — The Wyoming legislature has given final approval to a bill to ban abortion and replace the state’s existing abortion trigger law to account for legal challenges.
The Life Is a Human Right Act forbids abortion by any surgical or chemical method except in cases of rape, incest, lethal fetal abnormality, or to save the life of a mother. It also forbids the use of public funds to pay for abortions.
Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed the state’s current trigger law, to ban most abortions upon the reversal of Roe v. Wade, last March, but a court blocked it in July at the request of abortionists. A trial for that case is slated for this coming December.
In the meantime, the legislature adopted an amendment to the new bill proposed by Republican state Rep. Barry Crago declaring that it would only take effect if the old trigger law is deemed unconstitutional.
LifeSiteNews previously reported that the Act passed the Wyoming House 46-16, and now it has passed the state Senate as well by a 25-5 vote, the Cody Enterprise
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