Wyoming legislation · 2025 General Session
Wyoming HB159: Protecting water from chemical abortion waste.
Status: Failed, February 10, 2025
AN ACT relating to abortions and environmental quality; specifying requirements for the provision of chemical abortions; specifying criminal and civil penalties and liability; specifying exceptions to criminal liability; specifying requirements for manufacturers of chemical abortion drugs; specifying environmental and disposal requirements for abortion drugs; specifying duties of the department of environmental quality; specifying applicability; providing for the conflict of laws; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.
What the bill says
An act relating to abortions and environmental quality; specifying requirements for the provision of chemical abortions; specifying criminal and civil penalties and liability; specifying exceptions to criminal liability; specifying requirements for manufacturers of chemical abortion drugs; specifying environmental and disposal requirements for abortion drugs; specifying duties of the department of environmental quality; specifying applicability; providing for the conflict of laws; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to abortions and environmental quality; specifying requirements for the provision of chemical abortions; specifying criminal and civil penalties and liability; specifying exceptions to criminal liability; specifying requirements for manufacturers of chemical abortion drugs; specifying environmental and disposal requirements for abortion drugs; specifying duties of the department of environmental quality; specifying applicability; providing for the conflict of laws; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date. Section 1. W.S. 35‐6‐201 through 35‐6‐204 are created to read: ARTICLE 2 REGULATION OF CHEMICAL ABORTIONS 35‐6‐201. Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Abortion" means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance, device or means with the intent to terminate the pregnancy of a woman, including the elimination of one (1) or more unborn babies, with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn baby. "Abortion" shall not include any use, prescription or means specified in this paragraph if the use, prescription or means are done with the intent (B) Remove a dead unborn baby caused by spontaneous abortion or intrauterine fetal demise; (C) Treat a woman for an ectopic pregnancy; or (D) Treat a woman for cancer or another disease that requires medical treatment which treatment may be fatal or harmful …