{"id":329453,"date":"2025-04-13T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=329453"},"modified":"2025-04-30T07:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:01:27","slug":"judge-lifts-block-parental-notification-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/judge-lifts-block-parental-notification-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge lifts block on parental notification law in Nevada… after 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update 4\/30\/25: <\/strong>U.S. District Judge Anne Traum issued an order<\/a> on April 25 pausing Nevada’s parental notification law just days before it was slated to take effect.<\/p>\n

Traum issued her ruling in order to give Planned Parenthood time to file a motion for a pending appeal. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal<\/a>, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte must file the appeal within seven days, or the parental notification law will take effect.<\/p>\n

Melissa Clement, executive director of Nevada Right to Life, expressed her “extreme disappointment” over the law’s pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cA young girl, whether she\u2019s 10, 12, even 17, facing an unexpected pregnancy, she should have those that love her the most and know her the best \u2014 her parents \u2014 involved in any medical decision she would make, most especially one with this kind of physical and psychological risk,\u201d Clement said.<\/p>\n

4\/13\/25:<\/strong> A Nevada judge ruled<\/a> last week that the state can enforce a 40-year-old law requiring minors who want an abortion to first notify their parents. Though the law has been on the books since 1985, it has been blocked by federal injunctions since that time.<\/p>\n

The parental notification law was passed in 1985 but it never went into effect because an appeals court ruled it unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade<\/em>. After Roe<\/em> was overturned in 2022, a group of district attorneys in the state sued to reinstate the law.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court Judge Anne Traum ruled in favor of those district attorneys and said the law can take effect on April 30, though she left open the possibility for abortion advocates to request an appeal and challenge the law’s constitutionality.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants do not need to show that the decision in\u00a0Dobbs\u00a0<\/em>has made the injunction more onerous, unworkable, or detrimental to the public interest,\u201d Traum wrote. \u201cDefendants must only show that continued enforcement would be inequitable because a change in law has eliminated the basis for the [injunction].\u201d<\/p>\n