STEVE SEBELIUS: Nevada safe, though Roe may fall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :Nevada's law allows abortion until the 24th week of pregnancy, and after that, if a doctor determines its necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.
51% : That's not just the right to abortion, but the right to marry, to procreate and other essential liberties.
47% :To be fair, that same survey found just 7 to 13 percent favor abortions in the third trimester; 25 percent to 43 percent favor abortion for "work, school or other lifestyle reasons; and just 10 percent to 48 percent favor so-called partial-birth abortion.
45% : That means the right to abortion -- and other, related rights -- will be determined not by law and precedent, but by geography and arcane Senate rules.
43% : On the issue of abortion, Nevadans have always considered themselves safe from the roiling national political and legal debates.
43% : In the event Roe is overturned, individual states would regulate abortion.
42% : But if the Supreme Court finds that something is unconstitutional -- say by overturning Roe, which allows abortion up to between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy -- then no state-level provisions would protect those rights.
41% : It's equally unlikely that Congress would be able to pass a law either outlawing abortion or making permanent abortion rights, thanks largely to the Senate filibuster.
39% : Still, Nevada would be in the clear, except in the unlikely event that Congress is able to fully outlaw abortion and a Supreme Court majority acts to uphold that law.
37% : That means that even if the seminal rulings in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) were to be overturned, abortion would remain legal in Nevada.
28% : Chemerinsky says it's unlikely the Supreme Court would rule that personhood begins at conception and make abortion illegal everywhere.
26% : A Gallup review of polling data published in January show that between 59 percent and 76 percent oppose an outright ban on abortion; between 81 and 90 percent support abortions in order to save a mother's life; 74 percent to 84 percent support abortion in cases of rape.

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