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Wyoming becomes first US state to outlaw use of abortion pills

Bottles of the drug misoprostol on a table
Wyoming’s governor, Mark Gordon, has signed into law a bill outlawing the use of abortion pills Photograph: Allen G Breed/AP

Wyoming has become the first US state to outlaw the use or prescription of medication abortion pills after the governor, Mark Gordon, signed into law a bill that was passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature earlier this month.

The crux of the two-page Wyoming bill is a provision making it illegal to “prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion”.

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