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- Abortion in Wyoming is illegal except for exceptions detailed below. After the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, abortion ceased to be a federally protected right. Wyoming's legislature passed HB92 in the 2022 legislative session, a trigger law that would ban abortion in short order following the overturn of Roe v. Wade and will take effect five days after Wyoming's Attorney General formally reports to Wyoming's Governor and Wyoming's Secretary of State, according to the law the Attorney General must do so within 30 days of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. After that, the Wyoming Governor must certify to the Wyoming Secretary of State that Roe v. Wade was indeed overturned. After 5 days, abortion becomes illegal in Wyoming except for cases of rape, incest (reported to law enforcement) and serious risk of death or "substantial and irreversible physical impairments" for the pregnant woman. Thus abortion is expected to become illegal in Wyoming by fall at the latest. The necessary proccess has taken place and abortions became illegal in Wyoming on July 27, 2022. Abortion was a criminal offence in Wyoming in 1950. Less-restrictive abortion legislation was introduced in 1997 but not passed. In 2013, a fetal heartbeat bill was introduced in the Wyoming House of Representatives but never made it out of committee. In January 2017, a mandatory ultrasound law went into effect, however, it lacks an enforcement mechanism. The number of abortion clinics in the state has been on the decline since the late 20th century, going from eight in 1982 to five in 1992 to one in 2014, and remaining at that total in 2016, 2017 and 2019. At the same time, a few medical facilities in the state have quietly offered abortion services to women. In 2017, 140 abortions took place in the state, representing 0.0% of all such procedures in the US that year. Some Wyomingites participated in Stop the Bans (#StoptheBans) rallies in May 2019 to advocate for women's right to abortion service health care. (en)
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- Abortion in Wyoming is illegal except for exceptions detailed below. After the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, abortion ceased to be a federally protected right. Wyoming's legislature passed HB92 in the 2022 legislative session, a trigger law that would ban abortion in short order following the overturn of Roe v. Wade and will take effect five days after Wyoming's Attorney General formally reports to Wyoming's Governor and Wyoming's Secretary of State, according to the law the Attorney General must do so within 30 days of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. After that, the Wyoming Governor must certify to the Wyoming Secretary of State that Roe v. Wade was indeed overturned. After 5 days, abortion becomes illegal in Wy (en)
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