Wyoming pro-life laws struck down: Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens has ruled that two pro-life laws in Wyoming are unconstitutional. The first law prohibited on-demand abortion except in the extremely rare cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother being in jeopardy, while the second was a ban on medication-induced abortions. Owens claimed that the laws "impede the fundamental right to make health care decisions for an entire class of people, pregnant women." Is a pregnant woman a different type of person than a non-pregnant woman? She writes, "The Court concludes that the Abortion Statutes suspend a woman's right to make her own health care decisions during the entire term of a pregnancy and are not reasonable or necessary to protect the health and general welfare of the people." Owens's decision assumes that preborn babies are not human persons; therefore, any consideration of their rights and protections is moot. It's a sad day in Wyoming, especially for babies in utero, as this judge has just declared them to be subhumans.
