The language of Senate File 83 states that no person “shall manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell, transfer or use any chemical abortion drug in the state for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.” Violating the law could carry a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $9,000 fine.
Wyoming senators passed the bill by a vote of 20-9.
Recent reports, including from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, estimate that the abortion pill regimen accounts for the majority of abortions in the US.
“I believe that abortion is the taking of human life,” said Senator Tim Salazar, the bill’s sponsor. “I believe that there is life in that womb at the moment of conception.”