NARAL Pro-Choice Nevada Condemns U.S. Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade - Reproductive Freedom for All

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NARAL Pro-Choice Nevada Condemns U.S. Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade

For Immediate Release: Friday, June 24, 2022
Contact: [email protected]

Carson City Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the constitutional right to abortion in the United States as we know it. 

NARAL Pro-Choice America Southwest Regional Director Caroline Mello Roberson released the following statement in response:

The anti-choice supermajority on the Supreme Court has done the unconscionable by overturning Roe v. Wade and opening the door for states to move to ban abortion. While Nevada is one of the few states with a voter-affirmed right to abortion care, this decision allows extremist politicians in other states to push abortion care out of reach. However, our fight for reproductive freedom is far from over, and there is no doubt that this decision will galvanize voters in Nevada and across the country. With our freedom to make our own decisions about our lives, families, and futures under unprecedented threat nationwide, you can count on Nevadans—including our 44,000 members in the state—mobilizing to elect champions up and down the ballot. Now more than ever, we need champions in office who will honor our values as one of the few places in the nation with a voter-affirmed right to abortion.”

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will have a sweeping and devastating impact. Now that Roe has been overturned, roughly half of the states in the country are at risk of banning abortion. Of those, 13 have “trigger bans” in place to ban abortion automatically. If other states predicted to ban abortion outright do so, Nevadans are predicted to see a 63% increase in women of reproductive age whose nearest abortion provider would be in the state—going from 110,000 to 180,000. 

The people who will be hurt most by the Supreme Court’s decision are those who already face barriers to accessing abortion care—including women; Black, Indigenous, and other people of color; those working to make ends meet; the LGBTQ+ community; immigrants; young people; those living in rural communities; and people with disabilities.   

NARAL Pro-Choice Nevada and our 44,000 members are already ramping up our work to elect candidates up and down the ballot who will take bold action to safeguard and expand abortion rights. In May, NARAL, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and EMILY’s List announced a partnership to collectively spend a historic $150 million on the 2022 midterms to ensure the election of reproductive freedom champions, and Nevada voters voted for more than 26 NARAL-endorsed lawmakers to win their primaries and advance to the general election in November. Read more about NARAL’s endorsed candidates here

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For over 50 years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for every body. NARAL is powered by its more than 2.5 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.