Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed a bill prohibiting abortion pills while allowing a separate measure that restricts abortion to become law without his signature.
Gordon signed the bill into law on Friday, prohibiting chemical abortions in Wyoming, which became the first state in the country to prohibit the abortion pill outside of a full ban on the procedure.
“I believe all life is sacred and that every individual, including the unborn, should be treated with dignity and compassion,” Gordon wrote in a March 17 letter (pdf) to the Wyoming secretary of state, in which he explained that he was letting House Bill 152—Life Is a Human Right—to go into law without his signature….