CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years defiantly opened Thursday nearly one year after an arson attack ravaged it and despite looming laws that could shut it down with some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the U.S.
The clinic in a small stucco building on a busy street in Wyoming’s second-biggest city of Casper is less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from Interstate 25, where the occasional anti-abortion billboard stands against the open, sparsely populated landscape.
Last May, a few weeks before the clinic was set to open, a fire tore through building, leaving soot-stained, smashed windows and police tape to mark the clinic site in downtown Casper. A woman who has since been arrested had broken a window, filled aluminum pans with gasoline and set it ablaze, authorities say. She told told investigators that she opposes abortion and was experiencing anxiety over the facility opening.
With its fire damage repaired, the Wellspring Health Access clinic will be able to provide both abortion-pill and surgical abortions — at least for now. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule Friday on federal approval that’s been disputed for one of two drugs used in pill abortions. Wyoming last month became the first state to pass an explicit ban on abortion pills, which have become the predominant choice for abortion in the U.S. in recent years.
The government has no rights on how females use there bodies.
Yeah, it is less risky to a woman's life to have an abortion than it is to carry a pregnancy full term. When the government tells a woman that she has no choice when it comes to taking on that additional risk, it is over stepping and taking away a woman's freedom.
I hope a lot of people show up to support them. People in the surrounding areas won't have good healthcare without it and some women will go to horrifying lengths to end a pregnancy.