Reproductive Health

As yet another OB/GYN clinic shutters in Teton County, women are left wondering what the future holds.

This comes after a longtime OB/GYN clinic in Jackson announced it’s shutting its doors.

There'll be a six-week gap this winter with little access to pregnancy-ending care in Teton County

Abortions increased throughout the U.S. in the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to newly released data. This trend comes despite more than a dozen states passing abortion restrictions or bans following the court’s decision.

Maternal deaths nationwide more than doubled from 1999 to 2019, according to a new study in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The research also showed that death rates are especially high for Black and American Indian and Alaska Native moms.

As the fight over abortion rights continues, a clinic in Casper that provides both surgical and medical abortion is finally open. The clinic was torched by an arsonist last spring. The arson suspect was arrested and charged in mid-March.

Two conflicting court rulings on a common abortion medication have put access to the drug in doubt, potentially limiting even further the availability of reproductive health care in parts of the Mountain West.

Cody Regional Health is adding a new program to their Women’s Health and Nursery Department. With this addition, infants will be examined by doctors in Denver and Billings through video and audio to provide recommendations for treatment or evaluate the need to transfer them to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Back in May of 2022, a women’s reproductive health clinic in Casper that will also provide abortions was preparing to open when it was set on fire. Over 10 months later, the Casper Police Department has arrested a suspect.

A bill that defines abortion as not healthcare and criminalizes providers who perform abortions has passed both houses in the Wyoming Legislature. If signed by the governor, this bill immediately becomes law and the current abortion ban that is being held up in the courts will be void. Lawmakers for and against it have stated that this bill will most likely be immediately questioned.