CHEYENNE, Wyo. (NEWSnet/AP) — Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban.

The law would have come into effect on July 1 and would’ve banned the prescription, sale and use of abortion pills.

This legislation joins the state’s near-total abortion ban, which is now stopped while legal challenges play out.

Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed the ban on abortion pills back in March.

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