The Wyoming Supreme Court has voted to keep abortion legal in the mostly conservative state because of an amendment responding to Obamacare. The post How an anti-Obamacare amendment kept abortion legal in deep red Wyoming appeared first on Straight Arrow News.

Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down two laws that include the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills.

President Donald Trump won Wyoming by 46 points in 2024, a wider margin than in any other state — so it is more than a little surprising that abortion is legal there. It turns out, moreover, that abortion is legal in Wyoming entirely because of a largely performative state constitutional amendment enacted in 2012 to undercut the Affordable Care Act,