Gov. Mark Gordon recently announced his plan to ban abortion pills. The ban, entitled “Life is a Human Right,” was initiated on March 17, making Wyoming the first state in the country to do so. After announcing the ban, students across the University of Wyoming voiced differing opinions on the subject.
“I have a hard time understanding why anyone would want the pill to be banned,” sophomore English Major Baily Shaffer said.
“I think it’s shitty for people to be making decisions for bodies that aren’t their own, and to be quite frank, it makes me really angry.”
Others, like chemistry major and senior Claire Duffee, had a different outlook on the ban.
“I’m a little fuzzy on when you would use an amicable abortion versus like a surgical procedure,” Duffee said.
“My personal stance is that I am genuinely against abortion, pretty much. But if it’s the case of ‘you’ve miscarried a child and need to get it out of your body,’ I think you would use abortion pills for that.”
Most, though, were not updated on the situation and did not have a set viewpoint on it.
“I guess I haven’t had time to think through any opinions around it,” senior in sales and marketing Tiffany Edmonds said.
Recently, Teton County Court Judge Melissa Owens blocked the “Life is a Human Right” act claiming “Wyomingites voted into law that they have a fundamental right to make their own health care decisions. The Legislature cannot make an end run, essentially, around providing a [new] Constitutional amendment. The court needs to further inquire if abortion is health care.”
Teton County is the first across the state of Wyoming to refute the ban.
