In Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Adam Laxalt supports letting states decide restrictions on abortion. That could include bans with no restrictions, but he hasn’t singled that out.
Laxalt, the state’s former attorney general, is challenging Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. One GOP win in the Nov. 8 elections could give Republicans control of the Senate.on Facebook and Instagram about the Supreme Court’s decision reversing Roe v. Wade. The ad’s text says:
"After Roe was overturned, the rights of millions of women were taken away. And Adam Laxalt called that a ‘historic victory.’Laxalt supported the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision thata nearly half-century of precedent guaranteeing the constitutional right to an abortion. Roe’s overturning allowed states to set their own abortion restrictions.
But we found no instances in which Laxalt stated support for banning abortion with no exceptions. In Nevada, Laxalt said he would support a referendum that shortened the state’s abortion cutoff to 13 weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest and the mother’s health.In the months since the court overturned Roe, most abortions are banned in at least 13 states, according toby the New York Times.
Other states have passed bans with gestational limits of 6, 15 or 20 weeks, for example. Most of these measures do allow for one exception: the life or health of the mother. To back its claim about Laxalt supporting"zero exceptions," the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pointed to Laxalt’s support for overturning Roe and for letting states regulate abortion.in an interview that Roe was"wrongly decided" and"so for it to be returned to the states is an important process.""I’m a constitutional conservative lawyer, and Roe v. Wade was always a joke.
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