Wyoming House advances ‘defining health care’ bill after hours of debate on abortion definitions and trigger language

(Note: this article focuses on the House floor debate on Senate File 125, the bill titled to “define health care and protect the people's welfare.”)

After extended debate the House’s Committee of the Whole reported Senate File 125 do pass with standing committee amendments. The bill inserts extensive definitions into state law that, among other things, state that “an unborn baby is a member of the human race” and declares that abortion as defined in the act may be treated as not constituting health care in certain circumstances. The measure includes a trigger provision that would make the new language effective either on March 12, 2026, or upon a Wyoming Supreme Court ruling in a pending case — language several members called a “trigger” that could reenact substantially…