HB138 would radically redefine Wyoming’s public policy on abortion by placing an almost unlimited right to terminate a pregnancy into statute and stripping the state of meaningful authority to protect unborn life. This is not a modest clarification of rights. It is a sweeping shift that elevates abortion to a preferred status while sidelining the state’s compelling interest in protecting vulnerable human beings.

By broadly prohibiting the state from “denying or interfering” with abortion prior to viability and by expanding who may perform abortions, HB138 weakens long-standing safeguards and invites the steady erosion of reasonable standards of care. The bill places extraordinary deference in subjective determinations of viability and “health,” effectively insulating abortion decisions from legislative oversight and public accountability. In practice, this makes meaningful limits nearly impossible to enforce.

HB138 also goes further by requiring state programs that provide maternity services to offer equivalent benefits to facilitate abortion. This forces Wyoming taxpayers to underwrite abortion as a public benefit, regardless of deeply held moral objections. That is not neutrality. That is compelled participation through public funding and policy.

At its core, this bill reframes abortion as a protected entitlement rather than a grave and morally serious act with profound human consequences. It removes the Legislature from its proper role in setting humane boundaries, silences the legitimate interest of the people in protecting unborn life, and entrenches a one-sided public policy that treats the destruction of developing human life as a routine medical service. Wyoming can protect women, respect medical realities, and still uphold the value of human life. HB138 abandons that balance, and it should be rejected.