“There’s very few Nevadans who don’t think parents should be involved.”Īt a debate in May, five of the leading Republican candidates for governor were asked if they would support other restrictions on abortions such waiting periods. “I think there is a tremendous amount of desire in the state to make our laws more common sense,” Clement said. But there have been discussions with political candidates about other kinds of abortion restrictions, she added. That is where the pro-life groups plan to concentrate their efforts, said Melissa Clement, executive director of Nevada Right to Life.Ĭlement said there hasn’t been much talk about efforts to repeal Nevada’s abortion statute. While the the 1990 referendum approval prevents the Legislature from changing or repealing the abortion law itself, lawmakers could put in place other restrictions, such as mandatory waiting periods, mandated counseling or requiring parental notification or consent. With the national protections under Roe likely to be lifted in the coming weeks, the focus of the debate is turning towards how individual states will handle abortion rights. If the federal government were to pass a national abortion ban, it would supersede Nevada’s law, for example, Gill said.
“But it might be changed for us, in spite of the fact that the vast majority of the people in this country, as well as this state, don’t want that to happen.”
And I don’t think Nevada voters are going to change that policy,” said UNLV political science professor Rebecca Gill. “In the short run, things will stay largely the same. The referendum vote effectively codified the Roe decision into state law, and ensured it can only be changed by another vote of the people. In 1990, Nevadans overwhelmingly voted in favor of a referendum on a state law that allows abortions within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. In the longer term, however, the fate of those protections in a post-Roe world remain less clear for Nevadans. In the short term, not much, as Nevadans enshrined abortion rights into state law more than three decades ago, and undoing that law would take a significant political lift. Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) U.S. In this May 14, 2022, file photo, demonstrators hold signs during an abortion-rights rally organized by Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains at Sunset Park, in Las Vegas.
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