Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, the group behind the effort, said it submitted more than 200,000 signatures, from all 17 of the state’s counties, in support of the potential ballot measure to the Nevada secretary of state’s office, which will now work on validating them. If approved, voters will have the chance to say the state’s constitution explicitly protects abortion, largely safeguarding reproductive care from legislative attacks.
“We know that 30-year protections aren’t enough in a post-Roe world, which is why we’re ensuring that our freedoms are constitutionally protected,” said Dr. Harpreet Tsui, an internal medicine physician., following the leads of California, Michigan, Ohio and Vermont ― all states where voters have elected to enshrine abortion access in their constitutions following the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
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