WIC currently helps 119 people in Teton County access healthy foods and health screenings.
Women’s Health
Mountain West states turn to family doctors amid OB-GYN shortages
The University of Wyoming will now offer a specific OB track to students training to be family doctors in Cheyenne. A similar program is already being offered in Casper.
Wyoming Freedom Caucus touts new abortion pill study. Researchers are skeptical
A new study says the abortion pill mifepristone is 22 times more dangerous than previously known. What to make of a study that seems to upend years of accepted science?
Natrona County court temporarily blocks two Wyoming abortion laws
The injunction comes a week after the Wyoming Supreme Court heard arguments in a separate civil case challenging two other laws that amount to a near total ban on the procedure.
Wyoming Supreme Court hears arguments on abortion bans
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.
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.
Lawsuit against new abortion restrictions changes venue to Teton County
Beyond abortion, Wellspring provides some gender-affirming care, OB-GYN healthcare and family planning services.
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.
