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President Biden Promises $5 Trillion In Tax Increases If Reelected

April 15, 2024 1:08 pmApril 15, 2024 3:27 pm

President Biden has promised to build America from the “bottom up” during his presidential campaign and as President of the United States, however, building from the bottom up has included signing Democratic and bipartisan legislation that has increased the national debt to $34 trillion. Since 2022, the amount of borrowing...

534 Women Traveled to Southern Nevada Last Year for An Abortion

January 5, 2024 4:54 pmJanuary 8, 2024 10:39 am

Reproductive rights, namely abortion, will be the centerpiece of Democratic campaigns throughout the country and in Nevada for the 2024 election. Although abortion has remained a centerpiece of many Democratic campaigns for decades, the recent overturn of Roe V. Wade has spurred broad, partisan and bipartisan legislation. In fact, a...

Lawsuit Seeks to Enforce Parental Notification for Minors Seeking An Abortion

December 5, 2023 2:51 pmDecember 11, 2023 1:50 pm

Parental notification for minor girls seeking an abortion was passed overwhelmingly by a bipartisan legislature and signed into law in 1985 by Democratic governor Richard Bryan. NRS 442.255 and NRS 442.2555 require one-parent notification with an optional judicial bypass for those situations where a teen feels endangered. The parental-notice law...

Judge Rejects Petition To Enshrine Abortion In Nevada Constitution

November 27, 2023 11:33 amApril 18, 2024 3:18 pm

Carson District Court Judge James Russell rejected an initiative petition filed by Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom PAC that would have enshrined abortion in the state constitution citing that the petition violated state law requiring an initiative petition to be of a single subject. The initiative, if passed, would have expand...

Partial-Birth Abortion Activists Prepare For The 2024 Election

November 9, 2023 2:30 pmNovember 16, 2023 1:33 pm

Democrats are celebrating the passage of Issue 1, an Ohio ballot measure that enshrined partial-birth abortions/late-term abortions into the state constitution. The passage of Issue 1 also removed parental and informed consent for minors and “individuals” who wish to terminate their pregnancy. Nearly 57% of Ohioans supported the measure. Ohio...

Planned Parenthood Officers File Petition To Add Abortion To Nevada Constitution

September 15, 2023 7:00 amSeptember 22, 2023 12:23 pm

Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Votes Lindsey Harmon and her “intersectional feminist” associate Briana Escamilla (she/her) created Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom PAC last month and has filed a petition to place a question on the 2024 ballot to add abortion to the Nevada constitution. The constitutional amendment would also guarantee...

Could Nevada Be The Next State To Eliminate The Ban On Taxpayer Funded Abortions?

September 1, 2023 1:40 pmSeptember 4, 2023 1:37 pm

Currently, in Nevada, Medicaid only covers abortion in the case of rape, incest or if the life of the mother is at risk. The ACLU, on behalf of the Silver State Hope Fund, filed a lawsuit on August 28 against the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services seeking to...