{"id":46905,"date":"2023-11-28T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46905"},"modified":"2023-12-02T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T10:22:19","slug":"nevada-judges-order-rejects-abortion-rights-ballot-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/nevada-judges-order-rejects-abortion-rights-ballot-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada judge&#8217;s order rejects abortion rights ballot initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46907\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46907\" class=\"wp-image-46907 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nevada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nevada.jpg 750w, https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nevada-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nevada-95x60.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenia Leon chants during a rally in support of abortion rights Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in Las Vegas.<br \/>AP Photo\/John Locher<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(<em>Chris Woodward<\/em>) \u2013 A Nevada judge rejected a ballot initiative that seeks to codify abortion rights in the state\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>District Court Judge James T. Russell said the 2024 ballot initiative, called the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Nevada_Right_to_Reproductive_Freedom_Amendment_(2024)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0violates the state&#8217;s single subject rule for constitutional amendments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including, without limitation, prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, vasectomy, tubal ligation, abortion, abortion care, management of a miscarriage and infertility care,&#8221; says the initiative, which is backed by the group\u00a0Nevadans for Reproductive Rights.<\/p>\n<p>According to Russell, the initiative &#8220;does not embrace a single subject, contains a misleading description of effect, and contains an unfunded mandate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The order issued last week marks a victory for the Coalition for Parents and Children (CPC), which filed a lawsuit to block the amendment. CPC argued the ballot initiative violated state requirements for ballots in that it embraced \u201ca multitude\u201d of medical subjects, not just one subject. CPC called this \u201clogrolling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmending a state constitution requires a clear purpose and concise language so the voter understands the amendment\u2019s true effect,\u201d said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, which filed a similar lawsuit that&#8217;s pending in Florida. \u201cThis Nevada abortion amendment was written to mislead Nevada voters to enshrine killing unborn babies under the broad guise of \u2018reproductive freedom.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Staver said in a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/112723-judge-rejects-attempt-to-codify-abortion-in-nevada-constitution-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/112723-judge-rejects-attempt-to-codify-abortion-in-nevada-constitution-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1701303329648000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ArYxivoeaCephjk9MW7uQ\">press release<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that \u201cmisleading amendments like this must be rejected\u201d and that \u201cabortion harms women and cruelly kills defenseless children in the womb.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chris Woodward | The Center Square<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Chris Woodward) \u2013 A Nevada judge rejected a ballot initiative that seeks to codify abortion rights in the state\u2019s constitution. District Court Judge James T. Russell said the 2024 ballot initiative, called the &#8220;Nevada Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment,&#8221;\u00a0violates the state&#8217;s single subject rule for constitutional amendments. &#8220;Every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88912,"featured_media":46907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46908,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905\/revisions\/46908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}