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Gabe Stern
RENO, Nevada (AP) — Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak said Wednesday that if he wins re-election, he will next codify it into law. An order he signed to protect in-state abortion providers and out-of-state patients during a legislative session that said it would seek to
"The governor is the last line of defense for reproductive freedom," he said. "The money stays with us."
The announcement was made in the side lounge of a coffee and wine store in Reno. There he hosted a panel of gynecologists, medical students and reproductive rights advocates to discuss plans to protect access to abortion as well as reproductive rights. He will be central to his re-election campaigns in key battleground states and Democrats' campaigns across the country.
Days after the Supreme Court ruled in June to overturn his Roe v. Wade judgment, Sisolak signed an executive order and Nevada traveled to Nevada. He said he would not support other states trying to prosecute their residents. Nevada for abortion. It also ensures that medical commissions and boards that oversee medical licensing do not discipline or disqualify doctors who perform abortions.
For the order to become law, lawmakers must support the bill and go through the legislative process. Due to his biennial legislative structure in Nevada, it will only be passed in the 2023 or 2025 sessions.
Even in Nevada, where abortion within 24 weeks has been codified into law since 1990, Sisolak has made the overthrow of Roe v. became one of his On Wednesday, he said his role is to "continue existing access" and expand funding sources for providers. Opposition Joe Lombardo suggested he might overturn Sisolak's decree, but refused to take a tough stance.
"I will have to evaluate it and I will look at it through the lens of being a pro-life governor," he said in a statement emailed Wednesday. He previously told a local TV station that he intended to overturn it. there is When asked about whether he would support restricting abortion access through a referendum, Lombardo said that if voters or state legislatures put forward ballot measures, he "supports giving them the final decision." said.
He did not indicate whether he would actively promote a referendum.
"I support giving voters the final say as codified in Nevada law," he said.
Republican candidates want Red Wave to regain power in Nevada this year.
With its re-emergence, the party is taking a significantly different approach than it did in 2014, when it last took control of the state legislature and governor. That year, the state party dropped a statement against abortion from its platform. But this year, its front-runner is that abortion rights are codified into state law, and that restricting abortion here requires a popular vote in a referendum, a legislative battle like no other state.
"I am Catholic and for life, but abortion rights are codified in law in Nevada and it is Only Nevada voters can change," Lombardo said.
Coffee Wednesday At his shop, Sisolak stressed the big difference between himself and his opponents.
"People need to make decisions with that in mind," he said. "This is a situation where you can't get a step out." We also talked about out-of-state patients coming to Nevada from far away Texas. They said obstetrician-gynecologist training centers were in short supply and needed at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Planned Parenthood representatives called Nevada a safe haven. We talked about a soon-to-be-opening location near the Reno airport that would help with the growing number of out-of-state patients we're seeing.
The “what next” issue of abortion access is a topic that concerns nearly every race throughout the state of Nevada. Both candidates have sought to clarify the other's position in the hotly contested U.S. Senate election.
Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Mast said Republican challenger Adam Laxalt could be the decisive vote for a nationwide abortion ban to replace Nevada law. I warned you. Laxalto attempts to portray Cortes Masto as an extremist, saying she advocates "infanticide" or abortion up to the moment of birth.
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