NEW: A judge in Wyoming on Wednesday temporarily blocked the state's trigger abortion ban, just hours after the law took effect.
An abortion rights protest in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on June 24, 2022, the day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Photo: Natalie Behring/Getty Images, just hours after the law took effect.against Wyoming state officials earlier this week challenging the law, saying that it violates the state's constitution because it takes away people's rights around family composition and making decisions around their private health care.
"Wyomingites who have relied on safe, legal access to abortion for decades will lose the right to determine the composition of their families and whether and when to become parents; the right to be free from state laws that perpetuate stereotypes about women and their proper societal role; the right to bodily autonomy and ... the right to make private health care decisions and to keep those health care decisions free from public scrutiny," the lawsuit says.
The law took effect on Wednesday, five days after the governor certified to the secretary of state that the Supreme Court has
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