§ 35-6-132 — Compilations of abortions; matter of record; exception

Wyoming § 35-6-132

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 35: Public Health and Safety
• Ch. 6: ABORTIONS

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(a) The state office of vital records services shall
prepare and keep on file for seven (7) years compilations of the
information submitted on the abortion reporting forms. The
compilations shall be available as provided in this section. The
state health officer, in order to maintain and keep such
compilations current, shall file with the reports any new or
amended information. The information submitted under W.S. 35-6-
131 and compiled under this section, except the report required
under subsection (c) of this section, shall not be stored in any
computer.
(b) An abortion reporting form received under W.S. 35-6-
131 shall be maintained in strict confidence by the state office
of vital records services, shall not be a public record and
shall not be made available except to the attorney general or a
district attorney with appropriate jurisdiction pursuant to a
criminal investigation or to the state board of medicine
pursuant to an investigation. The attorney general or a district
attorney receiving an abortion form pursuant to this subsection
shall keep the form and information from the form confidential
except as may be required by law for a criminal prosecution. The
state board of medicine receiving an abortion form pursuant to
this subsection shall keep the form and information from the
form confidential except as may be required by law to determine
or enforce an action regarding licensure.
(c) Not later than June 30 of each year the office of
vital records services shall issue a public report providing
summary statistics for the previous calendar year compiled from
all of the abortion reporting forms from that year submitted in
accordance with this section for each of the items listed in
W.S. 35-6-131. The report shall also include the statistics for
all previous calendar years during which this subsection was in
effect, adjusted to reflect any additional information from late
or corrected reports. The office shall ensure that no
information included in the public reports could reasonably lead
to the identification of any woman upon whom an abortion was
performed, induced or attempted. The report shall be transmitted
to the United States centers for disease control and prevention
for the national abortion surveillance report.