Question 6 will amend the Nevada State Constitution to provide a fundamental right to abortion for ALL INDIVIDUALS (removes the ability to require parental notification or consent prior to an underage girl seeking an abortion because that would infringe on her fundamental right). Abortion is the only medical procedure a minor can undergo without a parent knowing, let alone consenting.
Unknown how the right granted to “all individuals” would be interpreted as applied to men. This is risky, and judges — not the people — will decide.
Removes the requirement that all abortions must be performed by a licensed physician and replaces that standard with “healthcare practitioner,” a term defined in NRS 439A.0195 as a dentist, licensed nurse, dispensing optician, optometrist, registered physical therapist, podiatric physician, licensed psychologist, chiropractic physician, doctor of Oriental medicine, in any form, medical laboratory director or technician, pharmacist or other person whose principal occupation is the provision of services for health requirement.
State and local jurisdictions will be banned from imposing health, safety, sanitary or location regulations. Unregulated, unsanitary clinics will result — perhaps even in your child’s school.
Removes the requirement that post-viability (a term that will no longer be attached to 24 weeks/6 months) an abortion must be performed in a licensed hospital by a licensed doctor.
Fetal viability will be defined as: “‘Fetal viability’ means the point in pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the patient's treating health care practitioner, there is a significant likelihood of the fetus' sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.”
Extraordinary medical measures in a non-hospital without a licensed physician is a very low bar.
It opens the door to abortion up to birth and may make it difficult to regulate infanticide (killing a newborn baby). Abortion facilities generally do not stock infant-sized cannulas (breathing), nasal aspirators, infant-sized IV equipment, diapers, or any other baby equipment found in hospitals but not found in abortion facilities.
Current law requires lifesaving care for an infant born alive — this requirement, as it has in other states that have passed abortion amendments, will fall. Babies born alive can be left on a counter to slowly asphyxiate for lack of life-saving equipment.