Nevada
Reproductive Rights Petition Clears Legal Bar for Nevada Ballot
A Nevada initiative petition that would establish a constitutional right to reproductive freedom meets the state’s requirements to be on the ballot in November, the state’s high court ruled.
The petition would grant individuals agency to decide all matters related to pregnancy, including prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, vasectomy, tubal ligation, abortion, and abortion care. It would allow individuals to manage decisions around miscarriages and infertility care.
A state district court erred when it granted an injunction preventing the secretary of state from placing the initiative on the ballot, the Supreme Court of Nevada said in an opinion …