Additionally, Congress continues to limit access to reproductive services to teens, preventing non-parental adults, including other family members, from escorting young women to out of state locations for abortion services. This may impact many rural Nevada teens. While Nevada doesn t have gaps regarding legal restrictions, gaps in service and access to abortion and family planning services prevail. Clinic violence and harassment of abortion providers also contributes to the shortage of providers. More emphasis should be placed on pregnancy prevention.
Pharmacists can deny access to contraception to patients simply by refusing to fill a prescription.
Anti-choice organizations claim comprehensive options to unintended pregnancy, yet provide a biased, limited range of options full of judgement. In May this year, Yvonne, a teenager, was sexually assaulted by a man she had just met at a party. Her family supported her through the process of filing a police report and pressing charges. The young woman went to her health care provider for an exam and a prescription for emergency contraception. Her provider informed her that she only has 72 hours to prevent an unintended pregnancy and already 28 hours have lapsed since her assault.