Hours after a Wyoming judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the state’s newly-enacted total abortion ban from being enforced, federal authorities announced that a Casper woman had been arrested and charged with the May 2022 arson of a would-be abortion clinic.

Lawmakers on the Wyoming Senate Labor, Health and Social Services committee voted 3–2 on Friday to advance a proposal which would criminalize providing gender-affirming care to children under 18 as felony child abuse, while doctors and mental health professionals throughout the state decried what they saw as fearmongering around a nonissue.