abortion under the Affordable Care Act, and thousands of Nevadans who count on extending the global gag order to the United Planned Parenthood health centers without States in a “domestic gag order.” access to care.” In 2017, Trump cut off funding for the Rosen, now senator from Nevada, has United Nations Population Fund, a planetsigned onto H.R. 671, which seeks to reverse wide provider of family planning and contrathe global gag rule and opposes Trump’s ception to women. The New York Times domestic version. reported then that health advocacy said the Her Nevada colleague in the Senate, Fund’s U.S. funding in 2016 had “prevented Catherine Cortez Masto, also attacked the an estimated 320,000 pregnancies and Title X changes that she said “make averted 100,000 unsafe abortions, it significantly harder for women while ensuring 800,000 people across the country to get the Abortion had access to contraception.” As health care they need.” Both are is at issue at a further result of that cutoff, expected to oppose any domestic women around the world were extension of the gag rule that both state and prevented from using a powerwould interfere with doctor/ federal levels. ful new HIV drug, dolutegravir, patient relationship in the United although men’s access to it is States. That Title X rule was made unrestricted. final last week, on Feb. 22, further In May 2018, as part of extending inflaming the abortion issue. the gag rule to domestic purposes, Trump A number of state attorneys general circulated a proposed “domestic gag rule” have headed to court to try to stop Trump’s draft around Title X, the U.S. affordable efforts. birth control program, in an effort to cut off New Nevada Attorney General Aaron millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood Ford—who used the abortion issue against health centers. It would block health care his Republican opponent in last year’s elecproviders receiving Title X funding from tion—has joined a coalition of state AGs in discussing abortion or referring patients for filing amicus briefs asking the courts to stop Trump administration actions lifting ACA the procedure. contraception coverage. The briefs were filed Jacky Rosen of Nevada, then campaignin Pennsylvania and California cases. ing for the U.S. Senate, said in a prepared On Feb. 26, Sisolak joined a letter by statement, “The Trump Administration’s U.S. governors condemning any “domestic dangerous new rule is a blatant effort gag rule.” Ω to defund Planned Parenthood. … This domestic gag rule threatens to leave
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Across the West on Feb. 25-26, strong winds kept planes on the ground, uprooted trees, pulled down fences, closed roads and schools and caused power outages. This tree went down at Woodside in Sparks. PHOTO/ROBERT CHRISTENSEN
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