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DGA Statement on Joe Lombardo Blocking IVF Protections for Nevadans

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DGA Statement on Joe Lombardo Blocking IVF Protections for Nevadans 

In response to Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo’s veto of bipartisan legislation to protect IVF after getting pressure from far-right anti-abortion groups, DGA spokesperson Johanna Warshaw released the following statement: 

“Nevadans won’t forget that when it came time to defend their freedom to choose how and when to start a family, Joe Lombardo caved to his anti-abortion backers and vetoed a bipartisan bill protecting IVF. Lombardo’s anti-abortion agenda is out of step with Nevadans across the political spectrum, and that’s one of many reasons why he’s the most vulnerable Republican governor in the country this cycle.”

Background on Lombardo’s deeply unpopular anti-abortion record:

  • Lombardo is an anti-abortion politician who wants to make it harder for Nevadans to get reproductive care and opposed a widely popular ballot measure enshrining abortion rights into Nevada’s state constitution.

  • Lombardo personally hosted a fundraiser in the Governor’s Mansion for Nevada Right to Life, a radical anti-choice group that “opposes abortion at all stages of pregnancy” and has praised strict abortion bans.

  • Lombardo donated thousands of dollars to dangerous, anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” and removed all language about their predatory practices from the state’s Health and Human Services website.

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