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22LSO-0338
2022
STATE OF WYOMING
22LSO-0338
Numbered
2.0
SENATE FILE NO. SF0083
Prohibiting chemical abortions.
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Salazar, Biteman, Boner, French, Hutchings, McKeown and Steinmetz and Representative(s) Bear, Gray, Jennings, Neiman, Ottman and Rodriguez-Williams
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to abortions; prohibiting chemical abortion drugs for abortions as specified; providing exceptions; providing a criminal penalty for violating the prohibition on use of chemical abortion drugs for abortions; providing definitions; specifying exceptions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 35
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120 is created to read:
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120.
Chemical abortion drugs prohibited; exceptions; penalty.
(a)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 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.
(b)
The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to:
(i)
The sale, use, prescription or administration of any contraceptive agent administered before conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional medical testing;
(ii)
Treatment of a natural miscarriage according to currently accepted medical guidelines;
(iii)
Treatment necessary to protect the woman from an imminent peril that substantially endangers her life, according to appropriate medical judgment.
"Imminent peril" as used in this paragraph refers exclusively to a
physical, and not mental, condition.
No medical treatment may form the basis for an exception under this paragraph if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the pregnant woman will engage in conduct which she intends to result in her death or other self
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harm.
(c)
Except as otherwise provided in this section, any physician or other person who violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine not to exceed nine thousand dollars ($9,000.00), or both.
(d)
A woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted in which a chemical abortion drug is used shall not be criminally prosecuted pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
Section 2.
W.S. 35
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101(a)(vi), by creating a new paragraph (xii) and by amending and renumbering (xii) as (xiii) is amended to read:
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Definitions.
(a)
As used in the act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(vi)
"Pregnant"
or "pregnancy"
means that condition of a woman who has a human embryo or fetus within her as the result of conception;
(xii)
"Chemical abortion drug" means RU
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486, mifepristone, misoprostol,
mifeprex
, mifegyne or any substantially similar generic or non
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generic drug or chemical dispensed for purposes of causing an abortion;
(xii)
(xiii)
"This act" means W.S. 35
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Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2022
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