Wyoming lawmakers say tight new restrictions on abortion are needed to grow the state's population. Demographers and others say economic conditions are more to blame for an exodus of young people.
It's the first court ruling affecting the legal status of abortion in Wyoming since the state Supreme Court struck down sweeping abortion and abortion pill bans in January.
The new state law makes Wyoming the fifth state to bar abortions after cardiac activity is detected, joining Florida, Georgia, Iowa and South Carolina.