(LifeSiteNews) — Nevada pro-lifers are declaring victory as Planned Parenthood concedes defeat in its federal lawsuit against a parental involvement law, although the abortion giant is trying again with a new state-level challenge.

Nevada’s 1985 law requiring parental notification for minors’ abortions has never been enforced during its time on the books, but the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade prompted the start of a legal bid to restore it. In April, U.S. District Court Judge Anne Traum ruled that the law could take effect.

This week, Planned Parenthood filed to have its federal suit dismissed, KVVU reports.  

“This is a landmark moment for parents and children across Nevada,” responded Melissa Clement, executive director of Nevada Right to Life. “We refused to give up. We carried this fight alone for decades, and now parents will have a voice in decisions affecting their children’s lives.”

However, the fight is not completely over. The Las Vegas Review–Journal reports that Planned Parenthood is now attempting a state-level lawsuit, arguing the law lacks adequate clarity on how to determine an abortion seeker’s marital status or her parents’ last known address, and, allegedly, that it is “fundamentally unclear how any patient seeking a judicial bypass order may practically do so across the state of Nevada at this time.”

Potentially complicating the eventual legal outcome is the so-called “Reproductive Freedom Amendment” that cleared a first vote in November and must pass once more in 2026 to be added to the state constitution. It establishes a state-level “constitutional right” to “make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including, without limitation, prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, vasectomy, tubal ligation, abortion, abortion care (sic), management of a miscarriage and infertility care.”

It allows abortion to be “regulate(d)” after fetal viability, albeit with the exception of any abortion claimed to be “necessary” for the mother’s “life or physical or mental health,” a loophole that would render any ban effectively meaningless. It would also establish that the state could not “penalize, prosecute or otherwise take adverse action” against individuals for “actual, potential, perceived or alleged outcome of the pregnancy of the individual, including, without limitation, a miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion.”

Abortion, the killing of an innocent unborn child in his or her mother’s womb, is never justifiable or medically necessary.

The amendment language does not explicitly rule out parental notification, but pro-lifers fear it will be interpreted as doing so by judicial activists.

Though commonly opposed by the abortion industry and its activist allies, parental involvement rules for underage abortions stop the practice from being used by sexual abusers to cover up and continue their crimes, as is often the case – sometimes with the knowledge and cooperation of Planned Parenthood staffers, as established by undercover investigations by the pro-life group Live Action.

Twelve states have banned all or most abortions. But the abortion lobby continues to work feverishly to cancel out those deterrents via deregulated interstate distribution of abortion pills, legal protection and financial support of interstate abortion travel, constructing new abortion facilities near borders shared by pro-life and pro-abortion states, making liberal states sanctuaries for those who want to evade or violate the laws of more pro-life neighbors, and embedding abortion “rights” in state constitutions.