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On May 28 the Nevada Supreme Court made the unanimous decision of halting enforcement of the state’s abortion parental notification law, allowing teens to access abortion services without being mandated to inform their caregivers. The ruling comes in response to a case filed by a Nevada physician and Planned Parenthood against a 1985 parental notification law that had been blocked under Roe v. Wade and was first enforced beginning in July 2025.

While the state Supreme Court’s decision grants only a preliminary injunction while the case proceeds through the lower courts, it marks a momentous step in addressing the current barriers to abortion access for teens even in abortion-protective states.

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Every time Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft intended to apply to medical school, life got in the way. But after 45 years as a neonatal nurse practitioner, she finally did it, beginning medical school at the age of 69 in 2022.

The pivotal moment came after her husband had a health scare. As she told me on this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” she sat him down and said, “‘Well, honey, you know, this is crazy. You literally almost died. And life is too dang short. What’s on your bucket list?’ And he said, ‘I really want to travel the world.’ And I said, ‘Well, I still want to go to med school.’”

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