Anti-reproductive freedom group says amendment push similar to slavery issue
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The Las Vegas Sun: A group that is seeking to ban abortions says its goal to amend the Nevada Constitution is akin to the drive in the 1860s to free slaves. Personhood Nevada says its efforts in pushing an initiative petition “is analogous to the Slavery Civil Rights issue.”
The group has filed its opening brief, asking the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn the decision of District Judge Todd Russell of Carson City, who ruled the initiative petition couldn't be circulated or put on the ballot because the language was too general and the voters wouldn't understand its effect. The Supreme Court has agreed to speed up consideration and the final brief should be filed by April 2. No extensions will be granted. Even if the Supreme Court ruled the issue could be put on the ballot, advocates would have to gather more than 97,000 voter signatures by June 15 for it to qualify.
The initiative petition, filed Oct. 21 with the Secretary of State’s Office, would amend the Nevada Constitution to give “the inalienable right to life for everyone, young or old, health or ill, conscious or unconscious, born or unborn.”
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