MAGA Republicans are committed to rolling back women’s freedom to make their own health care decisions
Tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris will be the first Black and South Asian woman to accept the Democratic nomination for president. This historic moment comes as Nevada Republicans plan on stripping women of their reproductive freedom. Nevada Republicans are great at inserting themselves exactly where no one asked them to be, including your doctor’s appointments. NVGOP candidates are in lockstep with Donald Trump’s MAGA-Project 2025 agenda that intends on banning abortion nationwide. Trump’s sidekick JD Vance’s campaign website said that Vance wanted to “end abortion,” and in 2022, he doubled down in an interview, saying he “would like abortion to be illegal nationally.”
In the Senate race, anti-abortion extremist Sam Brown has repeatedly supported abortion bans with no exceptions for rape or incest, including an extreme abortion ban in Texas that was considered one of the “toughest restrictions in the country.” Just last year, he served as the local president of an extreme anti-abortion group that supports a national abortion ban and called Roe v. Wade a “moral atrocity.”
In NV-01: MAGA Mark Robertson is an anti-abortion extremist who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, paving the way for Republicans to pass a nationwide ban on abortion that would supersede protections Nevada has in state law. He also applauded Texas’ drastic six-week abortion ban with no exceptions for rape and incest, and called for other states to “follow suit.” If Robertson has it his way, people could collect bounties for reporting doctors or anyone else who helps women get abortions.
NV-03’s wannabe NRCC “young gun,” Drew Johnson, has deepened his embrace of the far-right Freedom Caucus. Notable caucus members have said they’ll file an amendment that would ban funding for the use of IVF for servicemembers and their families because it is “morally wrong.” While Johnson has not answered whether or not he will support Nevada’s ballot initiative to protect reproductive freedom, when asked if he would join the Freedom Caucus, Johnson said, “I have the endorsement of several members of the Freedom Caucus already. I believe that the Freedom Caucus shares the same values that I do, and I will be happy to do it.”
NV-04’s local MAGA extremist is the failed former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee, who, even with the backing of Donald Trump and Joe Lombardo, could barely get through a primary against a no-name challenger. Lee praised the overturning of Roe v. Wade and promised to govern as the most pro-life governor in Nevada history during a failed gubernatorial run. He announced that he would take drastic steps to eliminate abortion rights in Nevada, promising to support a near-total abortion ban. In 2021, Lee wrote an op-ed in the Gazette-Journal calling to “end the atrocity of abortion,” and saying that Dobbs v. Jackson was “a case I pray will overturn Roe v. Wade and deliver a historic victory for our nation, the unborn and the global pro-life movement.” Lee also promised to “shut down” Planned Parenthood in Nevada, despite the governor not having any power to do so.
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