A year after Dobbs, Nevada remains a beacon on reproductive rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : And the first and foremost, that means subsequently changing laws."Because abortion remains accessible for the foreseeable future in Nevada, the Right to Life affiliate here has shifted its focus to connecting women to pregnancy crisis resources.
52% : While Nevada Right to Life's main focus is to convince expecting mothers to not go through with an abortion, Clement said her organization also helped connect women to services like free ultrasounds, newborn care packages and signing up for public assistance.
50% : The Nevada Legislature this year also passed Senate Joint Resolution 7, which seeks to amend the Nevada Constitution to guarantee access to abortion, as well as birth control, prenatal and postpartum care, vasectomies, tubal ligation, infertility care and miscarriage treatment.
47% : That was the first sign of what was to come, said Macy Haverda, president of the Wild West Access Fund of Nevada -- a nonprofit that assists women with medical and travel costs associated with abortion.
46% : Today marks one year since the high court ruled 6-3 in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, in which a majority of justices determined the Constitution does not guarantee the right to abortion and allows individual states to determine the legality of the procedure in their own jurisdictions.
46% : Once the Supreme Court essentially told states to figure out abortion on their own terms, the race was on in Nevada and elsewhere to take action.
42% : "We're hoping to eliminate the need for abortion," Clement said.
41% : Nevada voters in 1990 overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure enshrining the right to abortion through 24 weeks gestation into the Nevada Revised Statutes, meaning the policy could only be undone by a similar voter referendum.
39% : Since the ruling, trigger laws have gone into effect in nine states to ban abortion, and 25 measures have been enacted across the country to restrict access to the procedure.
34% : The law, the first of its kind in the nation limiting interstate travel for abortion, is punishable by up to five years in prison.
33% : Abortion in Nevada Lombardo approves protections for election workers, abortion bill Nevada Democrats praise Supreme Court ruling on abortion pills AG Ford: Nevada joins fight against decision to block medication abortion access Nevada drug provider on front lines in battle over abortion pillsAdvocates for and against legal access to abortion in Nevada and across the country may not have much in common when it comes to women's reproductive rights.
29% :Rosen is up for reelection in 2024, when abortion will almost assuredly be one of the most top-of-mind issues for voters, Roberson said.
22% : And in 2019, former Gov. Steve Sisolak signed into law the Trust Nevada Women Act, which removed most criminal penalties for abortion from from state laws that, in some cases, were enacted more than a century ago.
21% : Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., has blocked at least 250 officer promotions since March in protest of a new Department of Defense policy that reimburses travel costs and leave for service members who seek abortion.

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