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Opinion: Protect women’s health care in November

Nevada has a choice to make this November. Voting yes for the Nevada Reproductive Rights Amendment would ensure that generations of women to come would have the right to abortion.

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On the Record: Where do top candidates stand on abortion?

Though abortion rights in the Silver State have been protected by state law for more than 30 years, the outcome of the state’s congressional and Senate and gubernatorial elections will likely have implications for abortion protections.

A crowd gathers during a reproductive health rights demonstration in front of the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas.

In pro-choice Nevada, obscure law sends women to prison for late-term pregnancy loss

Nevada is a firmly pro-choice state with the protections from Roe v. Wade enshrined in state law and the majority of Nevadans consistently polling in favor of reproductive rights. But it’s the only state in the country that can imprison people for terminating a pregnancy under certain circumstances, according to Laura FitzSimmons, the Carson City-based lawyer now representing Frazier pro bono.

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