Wyoming Really IS The Equality State ... For At Least A Little While Longer

Abortion is healthcare, all day, every day. Wyoming's highest court just confirmed it.

On Tuesday the Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the state’s abortion ban. By a 4-1 vote, the conservative justices held that the law violates the constitutional right to make health care decisions. And they did it in the funniest way possible.

The ruling has its genesis in a bit of performative Republican theater back in 2012 when Republicans were fear mongering about the recently enacted Affordable Care Act.

Death panels for everyone!

Enter State Sen. Leslie Nutting (R-Cheyenne), with a proposal to amend the state’s constitution to ensure that Obama couldn’t come for granny. She called to add language to preserving the right of each “competent adult” in the state of Wyoming “to make his or her own health care decisions” and protecting those rights “from undue governmental infringement.”

The amended language, known as Section 38, passed by a 77-23 margin. That’d show those death panel bureaucrats in Washington, DC!