The Fighting for Reproductive Freedom Tour stopped in Reno with a stacked lineup on Saturday morning.
Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz, Hollywood actress and reproductive rights advocate Jennifer Garner, Nevada's democratic senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, and democratic assembly candidate Erica Roth delivered remarks at Wild River Grille.
"When it comes to decisions about our families and our healthcare. No politician should stand in the way. Because it is our choice," said Gwen Walz.
Actor Jennifer Garner is joining Gwen Walz on the nation's "Fighting for Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour."
"I don't want to know how the government is going to control women and working-class families. I want to know how the government is going to support women and middle-class families," said Jennifer Garner.
"If you want women to have babies, the first thing they want and need their first year of pregnancy is to reinstate the child tax credit," said Garner.
Democratic incumbent Senator Jacky Rosen is defending her seat against Republican candidate Sam Brown. Her reputation is on the line.
"They overturned 50 years of precedent, 50 years with Roe v. Wade. This paved the way for those extreme legislators. You see it in state after state and county after county; you see what they're doing. Attacks on women, their reproductive rights, they're even going after IVF," said (D-NV) Senator Jacky Rosen.
Democratic assembly candidate and public defender Erica Roth says she is running for office because of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
"In 2022, I was working for Governor Sisolak at the time as his deputy general council and I woke up to the news that Roe v. Wade had been overturned, and like many of you I began to cry," said Democratic AD24 Assembly candidate and public defender Erica Roth.
"Within a few hours of Roe v. Wade being overturned, I had drafted the executive order protecting patients seeking care in this state from criminal prosecution," Roth said to a cheering crowd.
Currently, a state statute from the 1990s protects access to abortion in Nevada up to 24 weeks. Question 6 on this year's ballot would further enshrine the law into the state constitution. It would have to be approved by the voters again in 2026. By doing so, Democrats point out that abortion access would have even more protection in the case of a federal abortion ban.
The Trump campaign tells us that Nevada voters are more concerned with other issues since abortion is a state statute.
"Here in Nevada, the way we are going to vote on abortion is very different than other states. And I think you have a lot of pro-choice Republicans; I think you have a lot of pro-life Republicans, who are going to vote for Donald Trump because they know that is the best option to move forward for the next years," Team Trump Nevada Spokesperson Halee Dobbins.
After the Reno stop, the reproductive freedom bus tour traveled to Carson City, where it hosted a canvassing kickoff event.
