In November, a Wyoming state district judge who earlier blocked Wyoming's abortion laws from taking effect ruled that those bans — both on surgical abortion and the nation's first explicit ban on abortion pills — violate the state constitution.
Twenty-four states, including 16 that don't have total abortion bans in place, now have passed TRAP laws similar to the Wyoming measure requiring abortion clinics to be licensed surgical centers, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
In Wyoming, abortion has remained legal while a previous lawsuit filed by Wellspring and others challenging state abortion bans passed in 2022 and 2023 is pending before the Wyoming Supreme Court.
It is the latest among a surge of state bans and other restrictions on abortion, lawsuits challenging the measures, and voter initiatives involving abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Gordon vetoed a similar measure in 2024, objecting to added provisions he said could have complicated the state's attempt to uphold Wyoming's abortion bans in court.
