{"id":241601,"date":"2021-03-18T07:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=241601"},"modified":"2021-03-17T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:37:00","slug":"abortion-advocates-misinformation-abortion-pills-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-advocates-misinformation-abortion-pills-wyoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion advocates use misinformation to defend abortion drugs in Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-life lawmakers in Wyoming have introduced a bill that would outlaw certain abortion drugs, and last week, it was advanced by a legislative committee in a 4-1 vote<\/a>. According to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Senate File 133<\/a>\u00a0“would prohibit the use of several drugs, including mifepristone and misoprostol, that are commonly used for early-stage abortions.” The bill,\u00a0Senate File 133<\/a>, would keep women safe from the dangerous abortion pill regimen<\/a>, and save countless lives \u2014 but abortion advocates are fighting back.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tim Salazar, who sponsored the bill, told the Caspar Star Tribune<\/a> that the measure is an issue of safety. \u201cThroughout this country, even in our own state, we have public policy on what we as a society are going to allow within the framework of the right to have an abortion in this country,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe we as a state in Wyoming have a responsibility to also decide not only what we will and will not allow in the procedures of how you have an abortion, but also what procedures are either dangerous or gruesome.\u201d Salazar has reportedly called use of the abortion drugs “cruel and unusual.”<\/p>\n

A pro-abortion doctor, however, argued against the bill using stunningly anti-scientific arguments in her testimony. \u201cI think we call all agree fewer desired abortions is a good thing, and unfortunately restrictions on abortion have not been shown to reduce demand,\u201d Dr. Katie Noyes said in her testimony. Yet according to the Caspar Star Tribune, the bill isn’t necessary, because abortion pills are only currently approved for use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy \u2014 which, Noyes falsely claimed, is when the preborn child doesn’t have a brain, or the ability to feel pain.<\/p>\n