Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion ban, including explicit ban on pills

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion in Kansas City, Kansas, Oct. 12, 2022. On Nov. 19, 2024, a judge in Wyoming struck down an explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.