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Posted on 01/02/2024 12:16:10 AM PST by Morgana
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — It's been a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson case, which ultimately overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and opened the floodgates for states to pass legislation banning or restricting abortion.
Abortion access remains intact in Nevada, though, thanks to a 1990 voter referendum that safeguarded abortion rights for up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
"We want to make sure that those patients know that here in southern Nevada, they are welcome and they are safe," said Adrienne Mansanares, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which covers a region spanning several western states, including Nevada.
Nevada's policies preserving abortion access are why women from abortion-restrictive states continue to flock to the silver state for care, even 1.5 years post-Roe. Mansanares said the number of out-of-state patients seeking abortion services at Planned Parenthood's southern Nevada clinics has tripled since the 2022 SCOTUS ruling, and that demand remains steady.
"About half of the patients that are accessing abortion care are coming from out of state. The majority of those folks are traveling all the way from Texas," Mansanares said as she detailed what Planned Parenthood's two southern Nevada clinics are seeing.
Women aren't just coming here from states like Texas, though. Some are coming from places where it's still legal, showing how abortion laws affect patients and providers even outside the jurisdictions they govern.
"We see patients in our Las Vegas health center that may have traveled from Colorado or New Mexico, where abortion care is available, it's accessible, but the appointments have been blocked out by people who are traveling," she said.
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Whenever I read Roe described as “landmark” I have to fight the temptation to stop right there.
It was a landmark to them, a nightmare to us.
As for the travel being up I believe it, it was that way before Roe. Women traveled to other states like New York and DC for abortions all the time and it was known they did.
I knew it would go back to this only now they have the internet to be more organized.
Vegas, where gambling isn’t just for fun.
In the 1980s I use to work at a hospital in NYC while the 1199 union members were on strike and saw quite a lot of abortions, I mean the babies which I had to put into a haz mat bags. One time a doctor allowed me to watch as he took measurements of one baby who was about the size of my hand, who look completely norman but for some reason they decided to murder the kid, and I got so freaked out I almost puked and fainted. It was horrific. That and I had to bag people who died and bring them to the morgue, it was like something out of a concentration camp, death, death death. That was a crazy job. One time they had a guy come into the emergency room who somehow chain sawed his lower jaw in half and the freakin nurses were screaming at him to stop bleeding on the floor LOL This was during the AIDs crisis as well and there was blood everywhere
Because, You don't have to teach a child to do bad. They must be taught to do good.
Abortion is the result of poor parenting X2
This is exactly what one would expect after Roe vs Wade was overturned. The abortion issue was returned to the states and those states that permit abortion would see an uptick in women traveling to those states to get abortions.
Their kids not so much though.
Demons. *spit*
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