Nevada’s
Reproductive rights amendment
Nevada’s
Reproductive rights amendment
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
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Nevada’s Reproductive rights amendment
Nevada’s Reproductive rights amendment
FAQs
FAQs
They Said It Was About Healthcare…
They Said It Was About Healthcare…
Current Nevada Abortion Law
In 1990, Nevadans voted on Question 7 in a referendum. “Shall the statute NRS442.250, conditions under which abortion permitted” be approved?
Voters approved Question 7 meaning Nevada’s abortion law can not be changed except by a vote of the people. No legislation or executive action can affect conditions under which abortion is permitted. What are the conditions in NRS 442.250?
THIS LAW CANNOT BE CHANGED EXCEPT BY A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.
Your Ballot
Nevada already allows abortion up to 6 months and beyond in the case of medical emergencies. Question 6 permanently changes the Constitution limiting our ability to make any law to protect women.
Includes underage girls and permanently removes parental involvement before an abortion is performed on a child. Should abortion be the only procedure where parents have no say?
Doesn’t specify abortion has to be performed in a licensed medical facility with safety/sanitation standards - risking the lives of women.
Removes the physician requirement. Under Nevada law, lab technicians and other non-doctors are considered “healthcare professionals.”
Allows abortions in the 6th, 7th, 8th and even 9th months. A vote for Question 6 is a vote for 3rd term abortions by non-doctors on healthy moms with healthy babies in unregulated clinics.
STATE QUESTION SIX
Amendment to the Nevada Constitution
Initiative Petition C-05-2023
CONDENSATION (Ballot Question)
Should the Nevada Constitution be amended to create an individual’s fundamental right to an abortion, without interference by state or local governments, whenever the abortion is performed by a qualified healthcare professional until fetal viability or when necessary to protect the health or life of the pregnant individual at any point during the pregnancy?
Yes
No
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“All individuals” means regardless of age or gender. This eliminates parental involvement. How will judges interpret a biological male’s right to abortion?
“Qualified healthcare practitioner” REPLACES “licensed physician.”
“Fetal viability” is defined by the “healthcare practitioner.” There is no date or objective standard. Current law is 6 months, but that limitation is removed.
“Without interference from the state or its political subdivisions” closes the door on health and safety regulations. Even nail salons must meet state health and safety standards.
Amendment is vague
Take a look for yourself...
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION
A constitutional amendment provides the boundaries that all laws — past, present, and future — must fit within. The Reproductive Rights Amendment is TOO vague. Judges will decide all abortion law. The people will have no say once it passes.
Amendment Process
2024 vote
50%+1 YES
2024 vote
50%+1 YES
2026 vote
50%+1 YES
2026 vote
50%+1 YES
Constitution
Amended
ELIMINATES PARENTAL NOTIFICATION?
Nevada has a one parent notification (with judicial bypass) requirement for minor girls seeking an abortion. (NRS442.255) It is currently unenforced due to a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood in 1985. There is an ongoing case to remove that injunction and finally protect Nevada’s girls.
If this amendment passes, “all individuals” will apply to underage girls. A 12 year old girl can get an abortion. Her right cannot be denied, burdened, or infringed upon – even for something so commonsense as notifying a parent.
WHAT IS A PRACTITIONER OF HEALTHCARE?
Current law REQUIRES a licensed physician as the only legal abortion provider. The amendment replaces licensed physician with “practitioner of healthcare.” What does that mean? Check Nevada law.
NRS 41A.017 “Provider of health care” defined. “Provider of health care” means a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 630 or 633 of NRS, physician assistant, dentist, licensed nurse, dispensing optician, optometrist, registered physical therapist, podiatric physician, licensed psychologist, chiropractic physician, doctor of Oriental medicine, holder of a license or a limited license issued under the provisions of chapter 653 of NRS, medical laboratory director or technician, licensed dietitian or a licensed hospital, clinic, surgery center, physicians’ professional corporation or group practice that employs any such person and its employees.
DON’T WE NEED TO PROTECT ABORTION FROM LEGISLATORS OR ELECTED OFFICIALS?
In 1990, Nevadans voted on Question 7, a referendum asking voters to approve or disapprove NRS442.250, a statute defining when abortion is permissible. Once a referendum is approved, only a vote of the people can change that law.
Nevadans voted yes. Abortion up to 6 months (24 weeks)– as long as it is done by a licensed physician – is protected and CANNOT be changed except by a vote of the people. Click here to read the question!
WOMEN’S HEALTH?
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS? ABORTION?
Women’s health refers to her whole body, her whole mind, her whole soul. The amendment only addresses abortion.
Reproductive Rights refers to all matters related to reproduction.. The amendment only addresses abortion - decidedly un-reproductive.
The only healthcare protected by this amendment is ABORTION. It is defined as a right for “all individuals.” It removes local and state agency oversight of one medical procedure, leaving it entirely regulation free.
No provision for any other health service or health screening. Not mammograms. Not pap smears. Just abortion.
Women deserve high quality healthcare, just like men.
NO SAFETY REGULATIONS?
The Amendment guarantees an individual the right to abortion “without interference from the state or its political subdivisions.” This jeopardizes the ability of state, local jurisdictions, and even schools to create and enforce health and safety regulations. Nail salons must meet state health and safety standards. Shouldn’t abortion facilities?
Currently Nevada’s law defines fetal viability as 24 weeks post conception. After 24 weeks, an abortion can only take place if there is risk to the mother or baby AND it must be done in a hospital to provide humane life-saving care for an infant born alive during an abortion.
If the amendment passes, the 24 week viability definition is replaced by (C-05-2023, Sec. 2):
“Fetal viability” means the point in pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the patient's treating health care practitioner [not a doctor], there is a significant likelihood of the fetus' sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures. [up to the discretion of a non-physician. Extraordinary medical measures could mean anything since no hospital requirement for late term abortions].
FETAL VIABILITY (the point after which abortion is not allowed) will be decided by the “healthcare practitioner.” The person making money decides whether the baby is viable and allowed to live.
ALL NINE MONTHS? NO WAY!
TAKE ACTION
NEVADANS DON’T KNOW our current law or what this amendment will do. Take action by downloading the documents below and informing friends and neighbors of the danger of Question 6.