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Press Release
NARAL Pro-Choice America Responds to Outcome of Nevada’s Governor’s Race
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 11, 2022
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NARAL Pro-Choice America Responds to Outcome of Nevada’s Governor’s Race
Carson City, Nevada — Today, reproductive freedom champion Governor Steve Sisolak lost his bid to represent Nevada as governor.
NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju released the following statement in response:
“We couldn’t be more proud to have supported Governor Steve Sisolak in this race. While we are disappointed by the outcome of this election, NARAL and our 48,000 members across Nevada were proud to stand behind Gov. Sisolak and are grateful for his commitment to protecting reproductive freedom for all Nevadans. We’ll be fighting to hold Joe Lombardo accountable no matter what comes next.”
NARAL Pro-Choice America Southwest Regional Director Caroline Mello Roberson said:
“We applaud Governor Steve Sisolak for championing reproductive freedom and standing strong against anti-choice extremist Joe Lombardo. While we are disappointed with the outcome of this election, NARAL Pro-Choice Nevada and our 48,000 members across the state are committed to continuing the fight against Lombardo’s relentless attempts to dismantle our reproductive freedom and will challenge him to respect the will of Nevadans in ensuring everyone has equal access to abortion care in the next legislative session.”
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—ending the constitutional right to abortion and opening the door for extremist state lawmakers to put total bans on abortion in place. This decision is already having a devastating impact throughout the country as 15 states are enforcing extreme or total bans on abortion. The people hurt most by these bans and restrictions are those who already face barriers to accessing abortion care—including women; Black, Latina/x, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous people; those working to make ends meet; the LGBTQ+ community; immigrants; young people; those living in rural communities; people with disabilities, and other historically oppressed communities.
NARAL endorsed Gov. Sisolak as part of its largest-ever midterm electoral program to elect candidates up and down the ballot during this critical moment in the fight for reproductive freedom. The program focuses on deep field investments in phone banking, door knocking, youth organizing, and canvassing, along with a robust communications campaign to support endorsed candidates and ballot initiatives in Pennsylvania, Georgia, California, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada. Read more about NARAL’s endorsed candidates here.
NARAL’s work in Nevada includes:
- Knocking on nearly 100,000 doors in Las Vegas, making over 26,000 calls, and sending over 108,000 texts;
- Running a robust canvass operation in Las Vegas since it began its work in the state in 2016, holding daily canvasses for over two months; and
- Deploying NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju to fight side-by-side with champions and get out the vote in key races.
Key components of our midterm campaign include:
- Harnessing the full power of our 4 million members to mobilize their communities through traditional organizing tactics. In total, we knocked on over 330,000 doors, made nearly 707,000 calls, sent over 868,000 texts, and filled over 4,860 volunteer shifts.
- Continuing to broaden the impact of our cutting-edge research into voter sentiment on abortion, including our pioneering freedom-centered messaging, by training candidates, volunteers, and activists to speak to their communities in ways we know align with their values and move them to act on their beliefs.
- Rolling out a pilot program in Michigan with 14 organizers working on seven four-year college campuses and over 20 community college campuses to enroll voters and activate over 721 volunteers.
- Endorsing candidates in over 200 races nationwide for federal and state offices.
- NARAL, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and EMILY’s List announced a partnership in May to collectively spend a historic $150 million on the 2022 midterms to elect reproductive freedom champions up and down the ballot across the country.
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For over 50 years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for every body. NARAL is powered by its 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.