Nevada's newly elected Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, just demonstrated that there's often no real difference between Republicans and Democrats.
The former governor, Democrat Steve Sisolak, gave an executive order before leaving office, demanding that authorities in Nevada not cooperate with authorities in other states to track down and identify individuals aiding in helping women obtain abortions illegal in their home states.
And the new Republican governor, essentially, signed into law a codification of that executive order.
But Nevada Right to Life, the leading state pro-life organization, said the bill really would protect abusers who bring underage girls to Nevada to abort their unborn babies without their parents' knowledge. Nevada does not require parental consent for underage girls to have abortions, but many other states do. If an abuser takes a girl to Nevada for an abortion, skirting the parental consent law in their home state, the bill would protect the abuser from prosecution under their home state law.
Obviously, this is what the order and now law are designed to do.
People will pay to traffic themselves OR abusers will pay to traffic victims to Nevada to obtain abortions that are illegal in their home states and if their home state wants to crack down on these human traffickers Nevada will not cooperate.
"SB131 would protect predators and bad actor adults who transport minor girls to Nevada for secret abortions without parental notification or consent," Nevada Right to Life said. "What type of adult secretly transports someone else's child to Nevada for a surgical procedure? Should Nevada protect those types of people?"
Abortions are legal for any reason up to 24 weeks in Nevada, and the situation is unlikely to change with the Democrats controlling the state legislature. This spring, lawmakers also advanced a state constitutional amendment, Senate Joint Resolution 7, that would make it more difficult for voters and lawmakers to pass protections for unborn babies in the future.
Nevada's supposedly Republican governor just further incentivized the abortion industry in his state and made his state a destination for the abortion tourism industry.
His actions are NOT conservative and will result in the deaths of countless children.
With Republicans like Lombardo, who needs Democrats?