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Wyoming has become the first state to ban the prescription or use of abortion pills, signed into law on Friday by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon. The new law will take effect on July 1.

Gov. Gordon declined to veto the bill, which prompted the ban to automatically become law after it sat unsigned for three days without being returned to the state legislature for review. Included in the law is a provision making it illegal to "prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion."

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