Upon hitting store shelves, Opill will become the most effective birth control method available without a prescription.
State law allows for any person in Nevada who is pregnant to have an abortion in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. The proposed amendment to the constitution would further enshrine abortion protections by cementing those rights in the state constitution.
“Anti-choice extremists made it clear that overturning Roe v. Wade was just the beginning, and last week they took it a step further when the Alabama Supreme Court tried to block women’s access to IVF,” Sen. Jacky Rosen said in a statement Tuesday.
IVF patients speak out after Alabama ruling regarding IVF embryos. Here's what you need to know about the Alabama Supreme Court's IVF ruling.
The Alabama Supreme Court directly cited the Dobbs decision—in which the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—in its ruling that effectively bans IVF in the state. But amid furious public backlash, Donald Trump and Republicans have raced to distance themselves from the ruling they made possible.
En un rally efectuado el sábado 24 de febrero de 2024 en el Campus North Las Vegas del Colegio del Sur de Nevada (CSN), voluntarios y simpatizantes iniciaron la campaña de recolección de firmas para calificar una enmienda constitucional sobre el derecho al aborto para la boleta electoral de Nevada de 2024.
President Joe Biden took Trump to task for his support of a nationwide abortion ban and his role in repealing Roe v. Wade, criticizing him for “taking away women’s freedom,” putting women’s lives in danger, and unleashing “cruelty and chaos all across America.”
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.
“Thousands of girls and women in states that banned abortion experienced rape-related pregnancy, but few (if any) obtained in-state abortions legally, suggesting that rape exceptions fail to provide reasonable access to abortion for survivors,” the study stated.
Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom must now collect 103,000 signatures from registered voters by June 26, 2024. If they accomplish this, voters will get the chance to begin the process of enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution this November.
