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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...

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...

Abortion Bill Clears Legislature, Heads to Governor Lombardo’s Desk

May 24, 2023 3:33 pmMay 30, 2023 3:43 pm

Senate Bill 131, an abortion bill sponsored by Senate Majority leader Nicole Cannizzaro (SD-6), passed the Assembly along party lines on Monday and is now awaiting Governor Lombardo’s signature or veto. The legislation passed the Senate with Republican Senators Carrie Buck (SD-5) and Heidi Seevers-Ganseert (SD-15) voting with the Democratic...

Mandatory Sex Ed for Third Graders Unless Parents Opt-Out

April 12, 2023 8:58 amApril 22, 2023 2:31 pm

Yesterday, Democratic Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod reintroduced sexuality education legislation to the Assembly Committee on Education which requires parents to opt-out of sexuality education curriculum. Current Nevada law requires parent to opt-in for their children. Starting in the third grade, Assembly Bill 357 also requires teaching statewide “evidence-based” and factual information about...

NV Dems Move to Enshrine Abortion Rights Into Nevada Constitution

March 19, 2023 11:40 amMarch 20, 2023 8:47 am

Citing the U.S Supreme Court’s decision on Roe V. Wade, a group of 40 Democratic legislators led by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro introduced a measure last Thursday to enshrine abortion protections in the Nevada Constitution. “The Supreme Court failed Nevadans when it upended fifty years of law to overturn Roe...

NV Dems Unanimously Sponsor Radical Abortion Bill

February 17, 2023 12:51 pmFebruary 20, 2023 1:25 pm

In a move prompted by the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe V. Wade, Senate Majority leader Nicole Cannizzaro introduced her first bill of the 2023 legislative session, SB 131, which specifically eliminates the ability of any healthcare licensing board to investigate or disqualify unsafe abortionists from practicing in Nevada. Although...

Planned Parenthood Endorses Mayor Schieve After Reno Approves ‘State-Of-The-Art’ Abortion Clinic

October 11, 2022 12:20 pmOctober 12, 2022 8:56 am

Reno mayor Hillary Schieve opens the following video expressing her horror at the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe V. Wade. Although in 1990 Nevadans codified abortion into state law, Schieve promises, “As mayor, I will do whatever I can to use my voice to make sure this (Roe V Wade...