Nevada voters handed the abortion lobby a 64 percent win on Question 6 in 2024.
But Nevada requires a second vote, and on November 3 the amendment is back on the ballot.
Now the LDS Church has stepped in with a letter its leaders want read aloud two Sundays in a row.
LDS Church Letter Tells Nevada Members to Oppose Question 6
The letter came from the Church's U.S. Southwest Area Presidency – Elders Michael A. Dunn, Joaquin E. Costa, and Pedro X. Larreal.
Local leaders were directed to read it in sacrament meetings on September 20 and again on September 27, across the Church's 339 congregations in Nevada.
"The Church opposes the initiative," the letter says.
The Church doesn't take sides between political parties, but it weighs in when it sees a moral question on the ballot.
Leaders said they "join other like-minded individuals and organizations working against this initiative" and urged members to speak out with "Christlike love and civility."
The Church opposes elective abortion, with possible exceptions for rape, incest, a serious threat to the mother's life or health, or fetal defects so severe the baby cannot survive.
The Nevada Catholic Conference and the state's Catholic bishops are in the same fight.
Nevada Abortion Statistics Show 14,832 Unborn Lives Ended in One Year
Nevadans deserve to know what's at stake before they mark that ballot.
In 2024, Nevada reported 14,832 abortions, up 7 percent from the year before, according to state health data compiled by the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
That's roughly 40 babies every single day.
More than 1,500 of those abortions were on women who came from out of state.
The latest reported abortion came at 24 weeks – a baby who, born early, could survive in a neonatal unit.
All of that is already legal under a 1990 ballot measure that lawmakers can't change without going back to voters.
Question 6 would lock it into the Nevada Constitution and push the door open wider.
What a Yes Vote on Nevada Question 6 Would Write Into the Constitution
The amendment creates a "fundamental right to abortion" until viability, "or when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient, without interference from the state."
"Health" is never defined, and opponents warn that turns the viability line into an exit door wide enough to drive a truck through.
The amendment says "qualified health care practitioner," not doctor.
Janine Hansen of Nevada Families for Freedom, the state's Eagle Forum affiliate, puts it bluntly.
"It allows abortion for all 9 months," Hansen wrote in August, warning that "Question 6 removes all protections for the woman and baby."
Opponents also warn that "without interference from the state" would put clinic safety rules and parental involvement for minors in the crosshairs of the first lawsuit.
Opponents argue it reaches beyond anything Roe v. Wade allowed.
Idaho Prop 1 Abortion Measure Shows What Pro-Life Families Stand to Lose
Days before the Nevada letter went out, LDS Church leaders sent a nearly identical one to roughly 1,300 Latter-day Saint congregations in Idaho.
The stakes there are even higher.
Idaho protects unborn children today, and Proposition 1, the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, would create a right to abortion up to viability.
Idaho's Catholics are in the fight too.
Peter F. Christensen, the Roman Catholic bishop of Boise, has held pro-life Masses and Friday prayer vigils since July.
He warns Prop 1 would "entirely dismantle Idaho's current protections for unborn children."
Soros and Pritzker Money Helped the Question 6 Campaign Raise 13 Million Dollars
In 2024, Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom raised $13.2 million.
Its top donors included George Soros's Open Society Action Fund and Think Big America, the political group backed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
The main opposition committee, the Coalition for Parents and Children, reported no contributions at all.
Through mid-2026, the yes side had raised more than $815,000, while the two pro-life PACs fighting it had raised about $10,000 and $1,700.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, the Nevada Democratic Party, and Planned Parenthood are all lined up behind the yes campaign.
Why Nevada Churches Say Vote No on Question 6 Before November 3
Democrats treated this vote as a formality.
Sixty-four percent the first time, millions in the bank, and practically no organized opposition.
Then a letter got read from hundreds of pulpits across Nevada.
Out-of-state billionaires can buy airtime.
They can't buy the moment a local church leader stands up on a Sunday morning and reads families a letter that calls this what it is – a moral fight.
That's how pro-life Nevadans close a money gap this big – church by church, neighbor by neighbor.
This is the final vote.
If Question 6 passes on November 3, the abortion lobby gets its right locked into the Nevada Constitution, and it will take another statewide campaign to undo it.
Nevada's churches just made sure nobody can say they weren't warned.
Sources:
- Amelia Hobson, "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opposes Nevada's pro-abortion initiative, sends letters to members," ABC4, September 23, 2026.
- Tad Walch, "Church of Jesus Christ opposes abortion measure in a second state," Deseret News, September 21, 2026.
- Tad Walch, "Latter-day Saint leaders join other faiths to oppose Idaho abortion vote," Deseret News, September 17, 2026.
- Mia Steupert and Elyse Gaitan, "Abortion Reporting: Nevada (2024)," Charlotte Lozier Institute, January 22, 2026.
- Janine Hansen, "Please Help Defeat Question 6," Nevada Families for Freedom, August 28, 2026.
- Ballotpedia, "Nevada Question 6, Right to Abortion Initiative (2026)," Ballotpedia, September 2026.
- The Nevada Independent, "Tracking 2026 Nevada ballot measures: What's up for a vote and what fell short," The Nevada Independent, 2026.
