Women’s Health and Family Care Clinic in Jackson, Wyoming, will be closing its doors December 15, 2023, after committing abortions for 30 years.
According to a local news source, customers were recently mailed a letter about the impending closure of the abortion facility that has seen abortion clients from across Western Wyoming and Eastern Idaho. The closure means that only one abortion business remains in the state, located in Casper.
The letter states, “With the rising costs of overhead, including rent, labor, and supplies, our private practice is no longer sustainable. We have had the privilege of serving the community for over 30 years and plan to continue doing so, just at different locations.”
Reportedly, the abortionists plan to stay in the community. Wyoming Public Media notes:
For half of them, this means establishing private practices. That includes Dr. Giovannina Anthony, who is at the forefront of the fight to try and keep abortion access legal in Wyoming, but also Dr. Doug George — who says in the letter that he plans on seeing patients in 2024.
The physicians transitioning to St. John’s Family Medicine are Dr. Laura Vignaroli and Dr. Katie Noyes, one of the region’s only other medical abortion providers.
Abortion is currently legal in Wyoming because the state’s recent protections for preborn children have been blocked in the courts.
As previously reported by Live Action News, on March 20, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon allowed House Bill 152 to go into effect. The bill protected preborn children from abortion, but included exceptions for rape, incest, a “lethal” fetal anomaly, or to save the life or health of the mother. Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens blocked the newly-passed law just days after it was enacted, which made abortion legal within the state again.
Wyoming also had a first-in-the-nation ban on killing preborn children via the abortion pill, signed in March. It was set to be implemented on July 1 and would make it illegal to “prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.” Anyone found guilty of violating the law, except the pregnant woman, would be charged with a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in prison and a $9,000 fine. The federal judge paused these protections for preborn children in June.
The Teton County judge will weigh in on the future of abortion in the state of Wyoming at a hearing scheduled for December 14. The Women’s Health and Family Care clinic intends to close the following day.
