Abortion

With the future of abortion rights in Wyoming in limbo, two residents share how their pregnancies led them to opposite sides on the issue.

Since a new law shuttered the state’s only procedural abortion clinic, its patients were referred to Colorado, Utah and Montana.

The decision hinges almost entirely on a constitutional right Republicans fought for in the wake of the passage of the federal Affordable Care Act, allowing residents to make their own healthcare decisions.

In 2024, Colorado voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution. A century earlier, a very different story was unfolding — one involving a young woman, a respected female doctor, and a trial that shaped Colorado’s early abortion laws.

Colorado voters rejected a measure that would have prevented women from getting an abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy unless the procedure was needed to save the woman's life.