The five-member court has until mid-August to make a decision. Questions focused on who decides when life begins and if abortion is healthcare.
About Hanna Merzbach
Hanna is a Wyoming Public Radio/Mountain West News Bureau reporter based in Teton County. She got her start in radio at KHOL where her award-winning work covering women's health access in the region landed on NPR and stations across the Rockies. In her free time, you can find Hanna scaling rock walls or adventuring in the mountains.
Recent Stories by Hanna Merzbach
Feds won’t analyze total impact of 3,224 oil and gas leases in our region
Environmentalists say this analysis is critical to paint a full picture of climate and health impacts, but industry reps say it’s not necessary.
Wyoming, Idaho and Montana groups want to end homelessness for people released from prisons
The goal is to build permanent, supportive housing for the vulnerable population.
New Wyoming abortion law forces more patients to travel to neighboring states
Since a new law shuttered the state’s only procedural abortion clinic, its patients were referred to Colorado, Utah and Montana.
Teton County won’t consider new abortion lawsuit
Judge Melissa Owens said she wouldn’t consider the case since patients have been turned away from care at Wellspring Health Access in Natrona County.
Feds already got 50,000 comments on grizzly bears. Now they want more.
The debate over whether to keep federal protections for grizzlies is “deeply laden in values,” according to one expert.
Wyoming Supreme Court schedules hearing on abortion ban challenge
Justices will consider whether Wyoming’s two near-total abortion bans enacted in 2023 are constitutional.
Wyoming Supreme Court: Anti-abortion lawmakers can’t be involved in court case
Chief Justice Katie Fox denied the lawmaker’s proposal in a brief order filed March 4.
