Nevada groups sue to stop anti-reproductive choice petition
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Reno Gazette Journal: Two groups filed a lawsuit Thursday to block an initiative petition aimed at banning abortion in Nevada.
The Nevada Personhood initiative violates state law by misleading voters about the true outcomes of the constitutional amendment, according to the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood. "It utterly fails not only to mention it will ban all abortions -- even in the case of rape and incest -- that it will prevent much fertility treatment and birth control, but that it conflicts with a prior vote of the Nevada electorate and it conflicts with the U.S. Supreme Court," said Lee Rowland of the ACLU of Nevada. "Voters need to understand what a monumental change they would be making should they vote for this initiative." The petition filed by conservative Las Vegas activist Richard Ziser seeks to add a single sentence to the state constitution: "In the great state of Nevada, the term 'person' applies to every human being."
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