Wyoming becomes the first US state to ban abortion pills

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Wyoming has become the first US state to ban the use of abortion pillsa new victory in the campaign of the administrations governed by the conservatives a reverse access to termination of pregnancy.

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After the decision adopted by the state legislature, Wyoming Governor, Republican Mark Gordon called on lawmakers to go one step further and include absolute ban on abortion in the Constitution of that State and submit it to the vote of the citizens.

The ban comes at a time when many are opposed to the clinical procedure They’re trying to ban the abortion pill across the countryafter the Supreme Court – the nation’s highest court of justice – overturned the right to abortion at the federal level last year.

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The sentence of a federal court in Amarillo (state of Texas) is also coming, where a judge should decide shortly an eventual nationwide ban on a widely used abortion pill.

A women's pro-abortion march in Amarillo, where a judge must rule on a request from a medical association to withdraw mifepristone from the market.  Photo Reuters/Annie Rice

A women’s pro-abortion march in Amarillo, where a judge must rule on a request from a medical association to withdraw mifepristone from the market. Photo Reuters/Annie Rice

This pill, the mifepristoneit was approved more than a decade ago by the FDA, the US drug regulatory agency, and has been legally available on the market for years.

Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk could order the abortion pill to be withdrawn from the national market.

Texas lawmakers are also considering a proposal that would not only ban abortion pills but also require Internet service providers in the state to block access to websites where abortion pills are sold by mail order.

Since the US Supreme Court struck down a landmark 1973 ruling last year that established abortion as a constitutional right, anti-abortion activists have sought ways to enact a nationwide abortion ban.

About 15 states already restrict access to mifepristone by requiring a doctor to provide it, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group.

Source: Clarin

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