A Wyoming judge struck down the state’s sweeping abortion ban that included a first-in-the-country prohibition on medication to induce the procedure.

Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens struck down two laws — a ban on most abortions and the United States’s first explicit ban on the use of medication to abort a pregnancy. She ruled that the laws were unconstitutional, as they “impede the fundamental right to make healthcare decisions for an entire class of people, pregnant women.”

“The abortion statutes suspend a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions during the entire term of a pregnancy and are not reasonable or necessary to protect the health and general welfare of the people,” she wrote in her ruling.

Owens had blocked the enforcement of the two laws while the case proceeded, deciding on Monday to strike them down altogether. The decision will likely be appealed.

The various plaintiffs in the case included two abortion providers, a fund that gives money to abortion patients, and a Jewish woman who said her faith requires access to abortion.

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Much of the case revolved around whether abortion constituted healthcare. Jay Jerde, a special assistant attorney general for Wyoming, argued that it wasn’t because “it’s not restoring the woman’s body from pain, physical disease or sickness.”

Owens’s ruling is another blow to the anti-abortion access movement, which has suffered near-consistent losses since the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022.