Nevada’s Outdated Abortion Law Punishes Women, Exposing a Crisis of Justice and Freedom

In a nation that prides itself on individual freedom and state sovereignty, Nevada stands apart — not for upholding liberty, but for enforcing one of the harshest abortion laws still on the books. Since 1911, a rarely challenged statute criminalizes any attempt to terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks, explicitly charging women with felony manslaughter. For decades, this law sat dormant until it shocked the nation by ensnaring Patience Rousseau (formerly Frazier), a woman who suffered a heartbreaking stillbirth in 2018.Rousseau’s story is not just tragic; it is emblematic of government overreach and legal injustice that punish vulnerable Americans rather...