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Wyomings Governor Mark Gordon address the 66th Wyoming Legislature via video message on Jan. 12, 2021 (YouTube, Wyoming PBS)
CASPER, Wyo. Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed Senate File 34 into law, a bill with the catch-title “Born alive infant-means of care.”
The bill will update Wyoming’s abortion law effective July 1.
The previous law and the new law can be compared as follows
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Statute before the changes: “The commonly accepted means of care shall be employed in the treatment of any viable infant aborted alive with any chance of survival.”
New law: “The commonly accepted means of care that would be rendered to any other infant born alive shall be employed in the treatment of any viable infant aborted alive. Any physician performing an abortion shall take medically appropriate and reasonable steps to preserve the life and health of an infant born alive.”
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