If Roe goes, Nevada's clinics would be strained by influx of out-of-state patients

Nevada will likely see an influx of out-of-state patients seeking abortion care, provided that a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion gutting the high court’s Roe v. Wade 1973 decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy comes to fruition, according to abortion-rights advocates here.

Overturning Roe would immediately trigger laws that would restrict or outright ban access to abortions in 26 states across the county. Access to abortions in Nevada would remain unchanged because of a 1990 statewide ballot measure that codified the right to an abortion within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Neighboring states like Idaho, Utah and Arizona are among states poised to either restrict or outright ban abortion, leaving Nevada as possibly the closest alternative to legally obtain an abortion.

In the last three months of 2021, after Texas instituted its ban on all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, abortions in neighboring states provided to Texas women surged 800%, according to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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