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In 1911, the Nevada Legislature went on to approve more women's rights legislation. [11] Attorney from Carson City, Felice Cohn, wrote the women's suffrage bill that passed in March 1911. [11] [21] Cohn also started the Non-Militant Suffrage Association which helped campaign for women's suffrage in Nevada. [21]
Women from the state participated in marches supporting abortion rights as part of a #StoptheBans movement in May 2019. [32] Abortion rights protesters were at the Nevada Capitol Building with signs to support the passage of SB 179, including pink signs that said "protect safe, legal abortion". [33] Following the overturn of Roe v.
Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, 1875 – April 15, 1951) (pseudonym, Anne O'Hara; nickname, Little Governor Anne) was a suffragist, pacifist, and author from the state of Nevada. [2] Her main achievement was taking charge of the state legislation that gave women of Nevada the right to vote. She was the first head of the department of ...
A ballot question to enshrine Nevada’s abortion rights in the state constitution has met all of the requirements to appear in front of voters in November, the Nevada Secretary of State’s ...
Nevada is one of 11 states where organizers are seeking to enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions through citizen-led ballot initiatives. The measures are officially on the ballot in ...
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation late Tuesday that protects abortion rights for out-of-state patients seeking care in the state, as well as for providers within the state.
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Nevada. In 1869, Curtis J. Hillyer introduced a women's suffrage resolution in the Nevada Legislature which passed, though it would wait for another legislative session to approve a second time. The first women's suffrage convention took place in 1870 in Battle Mountain Station.
Mae Caine (March 15, 1872 – August 24, 1955) was a 20th-century American suffragist and women's rights activist, civic leader, and government official in Nevada.President of the Suffrage Society in Elko County, [1] she was also a vice president of the Nevada Equal Franchise Society, and a delegate from Nevada to the 45th convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in ...