This morning, the Supreme Court took up oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a historic case that anti-abortion activists see as the key to overturning the half-century-old legal precedent guaranteeing the right to abortion. 

In Nevada, Adam Laxalt is campaigning for the U.S. Senate on his opposition to abortion rights, but he has refused to answer questions regarding this case and federal legislation involving abortion access. With the future of Roe v. Wade and 50 years of legal precedent on the line, Laxalt is hoping to hide his extreme views on abortion access, but Laxalt’s record shows that he would be an automatic vote for anti-choice Justices and for federal legislation to restrict reproductive rights, having pushed to curb abortion access throughout his time as Attorney General. 

“This attack on women’s health care is a powerful reminder to Nevada women of the stakes in next year’s election and why we must defeat anti-abortion extremist Adam Laxalt. Laxalt has dedicated his career to the anti-choice movement, using his position as Attorney General to undermine reproductive rights and even opening the door to overturning the law protecting abortion access in Nevada. Adam Laxalt won’t stand up for the rights of Nevada women and cannot become the 51st vote to help overturn Roe v. Wade,” said Brynn Palmen, NDV Executive Director.

Adam Laxalt knows his anti-choice stance is a major political liability and has tried to avoid talking about his anti-choice agenda outside of Republican events but he can’t run from his long record opposing women’s reproductive rights.

Background on Adam Laxalt’s Anti-Choice Record: 

• As Attorney General he chose to sign onto multiple legal efforts that would restrict abortion access, going against the medical community by signing onto two amicus briefs supporting Texas and Alabama’s laws banning one of the most common methods of safe, legal abortion. 

• Laxalt backed abortion restrictions or anti-choice entities in other states at least four times in his four years as Nevada’s Attorney General.

• Laxalt even pledged to “look into” rolling back the 1990 law that protects Nevadans’ right to choose and was voted on by an overwhelming majority of Nevadans. 

• Laxalt was endorsed by the Nevada Right to Life, an extreme anti-choice group which opposes abortion rights.

• On Medicaid, Laxalt said “I would not have done the Medicaid expansion,” even though hundreds of thousands of Nevadans gained health insurance, including for life-saving reproductive care, because of the policy implemented by then GOP Governor Brian Sandoval.

• Laxalt supported a dangerous religious refusals rule that could allow pharmacists to deny patients access to birth control based on their personal objections.

• Laxalt supports fake women’s health clinics that deceive pregnant people about their reproductive options, and can cause them delays in accessing real health care.

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