With national and state leaders calling attention to his dangerous policy proposals, Joe Lombardo’s constant evasiveness on abortion is finally catching up to him. NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju, local physician Dr. Adam Levy and Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro detailed how exactly Lombardo could roll back abortion protections as governor and why Nevadans cannot trust him and his out of touch stance.

Read more about Lombardo’s dangerous stance on abortion below.

Nevada Current: Pro-choice advocates fear ‘dystopian’ future under Lombardo

July 28, 2022

• A Las Vegas abortion provider says almost half of his patients now are from a state where the procedure is restricted or banned and he fears Republican gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo, if elected, would eliminate legal protections for out-of-state patients and Nevada providers who care for them. 
• Levy, who says he’s practiced in Nevada for more than 30 years, hailed Gov. Steve Sisolak’s executive order from June, protecting out-of-state patients and abortion providers. 
• “We need this order to stay in place to feel secure and continue providing care,” Levy said. “Joe Lombardo has equivocated or at least said he may reverse this order or maybe not. I don’t know where he stands on that because he won’t answer that.” 
• “Nearly half of the states in our country are at risk of banning abortion care and over a dozen already have bans in place,” said Mini Timmaraju of NARAL, a national abortion rights organization, adding with Roe v. Wade overturned by the Supreme Court, Republicans “have a bigger window than ever to push their dystopian agenda. I’m not being alarmist when I tell you that the worst of it is still yet to come.”
• Nevada state Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro warned that Lombardo “would consider cruel barriers, like mandatory waiting periods, and even banning contraception, which is the craziest thing that I think we could possibly have heard at this point in time.” 
• Cannizzaro raised concerns about Lombardo using public resources to fuel his support of anti-abortion efforts. She cited a Metro pamphlet that includes an entry for an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center for women “seeking an alternative to abortion” but does not include any resources for those seeking an abortion.  
• Despite polling that indicates two-thirds of Nevadans support the right to abortion, Lombardo, according to Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks, said he’d support a voter-approved ban on abortion at 13-weeks, with exceptions for physical health, rape and incest. 

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