Wyoming has go the archetypal US authorities to prohibition termination pills aft its politician signed a measure that made prescribing oregon selling them illegal.
Violating it is punishable by up to six months successful jailhouse and a $9,000 fine.
Women "upon whom a chemic termination is performed oregon attempted" volition not beryllium prosecuted.
As Mark Gordon signed the measure connected Friday, a Texas justice was considering a suit that could efficaciously prohibition a communal termination pill nationwide.
Abortion pills are the astir communal method of gestation termination successful the US.
The Wyoming bill, which was passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature earlier this month, makes it amerciable to "prescribe, dispense, distribute, merchantability oregon usage immoderate cause for the intent of procuring oregon performing an abortion".
The instrumentality is scheduled to instrumentality effect connected 1 July.
It does not screen morning-after pills oregon attraction to support a pistillate whose wellness oregon beingness is successful danger.
It besides exempts attraction of a "natural miscarriage according to presently accepted aesculapian guidelines".
Wyoming American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) advocacy manager Antonio Serrano criticised the bill, saying "a person's health, not politics, should usher important aesculapian decisions - including the determination to person an abortion".
Wyoming lone has 1 session that provides abortions - the Women's Health & Family Care Clinic successful Jackson.
The authorities is 1 of galore successful which ineligible fights implicit termination bans are ongoing aft the Supreme Court reversed the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade judgement legalising abortion.
More than a twelve states person enacted near-total bans connected abortions, respective of which person been enactment connected clasp by the courts.
Mr Gordon, who is simply a Republican, besides said helium would let a separate, wider measure that bans termination but successful constricted circumstances to go instrumentality connected Sunday without his signature. Both this prohibition and the prohibition connected termination pills could look challenges successful the courts. It is not wide erstwhile a wider prohibition would travel into force.
Even much states person placed restrictions connected termination medication, specified arsenic requiring an in-person sojourn to a doc earlier obtaining a pill.
Meanwhile successful Texas, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of erstwhile President Donald Trump, is expected to regularisation imminently connected whether a commonly utilized termination pill, mifepristone, should beryllium sold successful the US, successful a ruling that could curtail entree to the cause nationwide.
Mifepristone tin beryllium taken astatine location and is utilized successful much than fractional of US gestation terminations.
The justice is acceptable to regularisation connected a suit filed by an anti-abortion radical successful Texas arguing that the drug's information was ne'er decently studied by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approves medicines.
President Joe Biden's medication has argued that mifepristone's support was good supported by science.