{"id":68997,"date":"2026-03-15T07:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/wyoming-passes-new-six-week-abortion-ban-that-lawmakers-call-insult-to-voters\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:02:01","slug":"wyoming-passes-new-six-week-abortion-ban-that-lawmakers-call-insult-to-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/wyoming-passes-new-six-week-abortion-ban-that-lawmakers-call-insult-to-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming passes new six-week abortion ban that lawmakers call \u2018insult to voters\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bill continues a cycle of abortion restrictions repeatedly blocked by the state supreme court<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a>\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/abortions-in-all-but-earliest-weeks-now-illegal-in-wyoming-as-new-court-battle-brews\/\">passed a six-week abortion ban<\/a> this week, prompting a new lawsuit and some lawmakers to call it \u201can insult to voters and our institution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Gordon, Wyoming\u2019s governor, signed the bill while simultaneously warning of its constitutional hurdles, noting that prior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/abortion\">abortion<\/a> bans were struck down by the state\u2019s all Republican-appointed supreme court this January. Almost immediately, an identical set of plaintiffs <a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/wyoming-abortion-rights-defenders-ask-judge-to-block-states-new-ban-on-most-abortions\/\">filed suit against the new bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/15\/abortion-wyoming-supreme-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill continues a cycle of abortion restrictions repeatedly blocked by the state supreme court Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Wyoming\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature passed a six-week abortion ban this week, prompting a new lawsuit and some lawmakers to call it \u201can insult to voters and &#8230; <a title=\"Wyoming passes new six-week abortion ban that lawmakers call \u2018insult to voters\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/wyoming-passes-new-six-week-abortion-ban-that-lawmakers-call-insult-to-voters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wyoming passes new six-week abortion ban that lawmakers call \u2018insult to voters\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}