Nevada Democrat Nicole Cannizzaro Brags About Being a Mom, But Supports Killing Babies in Abortion
Critics say Nevada Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, is using the fact that she is a mother of young children – despite her fervent support for abortion – to her political advantage.
Cannizarro is widely considered a rising star in the key battleground state’s Democratic Party and is rumored to be a potential candidate for statewide office in 2026.
On June 13, the Democrat posted on X (formerly Twitter) a picture of herself and her husband posing with ultrasound photographs of their unborn child.
In the post, Cannizarro wrote: “Decided we needed a bigger team so we are growing our little crew and can’t wait to welcome Cole and Case’s little brother this summer!”
Several X users replied, contrasting the state lawmaker’s apparent excitement for her own pregnancy with her steadfast advancement of so-called “abortion rights.”
“Good ‘choice,’” one user wrote.
Another user replied: “Well you still have up to 24 weeks to decide Nicole.”
Abortion is currently legal in Nevada up until the 24th week of pregnancy. During her nearly eight-year tenure in the State Senate, Cannizzaro has sponsored multiple pro-abortion bills.
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Yet another user wrote, “please don’t parade this one at your job again.”
The user was likely referring to Cannizzaro’s decision in May 2023 to take her then-newborn son Cole to the floor of the Nevada Senate.
At the same time, she was at the forefront of a push for a law to shield people who travel to Nevada for abortions.
The Nevada Independent then reported:
Five days after giving birth, [Cannizzaro] was back on the Senate floor in a red dress and her signature stilettos, newborn baby Cole’s fuzzy head peeking out of the top of a fabric baby wrap.
“It’s not that it’s easy to just show up five days later and try to do legislative business and take care of a baby,” Cannizzaro told The Nevada Independent in an interview last week in her office, as Cole dozed in a carrier a few feet away. “But it’s a choice that I feel really lucky to get to make.”
Cannizaro posed with her days-old infant at multiple locations in the Nevada Legislative Building. Three of these pictures were prominently featured in The Nevada Independent’s article.
The article stated that the lawmaker’s message was that “moms can be a part of places that have historically been male dominated or unwelcoming to small children.”
Again from The Nevada Independent’s May 2023 article:
Cannizzaro said it helps to be surrounded by so many other lawmakers who are also moms and are understanding when she needs to bring her 1-year-old son Case to meetings, or when she needs to breastfeed Cole.
“That makes a huge difference when you create an environment where that’s not something that is looked upon as a disservice to the state,” she said, or “put in a category where that makes you somehow less able to do this job.”
Also in 2023, Cannizzaro told The Nevada Current: “What does it mean to be in [the Legislative] building and pregnant? What does it mean if I have a 1½-year-old and have to leave a meeting to pick him up at daycare?”
“Does that make me less able to fulfill my duties?” she continued. “There were questions that I had as I announced my first and second pregnancy.”
On May 30, 2023, days after Cannizzaro posed for photo-ops with her newborn, Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed her pro-abortion bill SB 131 into law.
According to the Idaho Capital Sun, the legislation “spearheaded” by Cannizzaro “would prohibit the state of Nevada from assisting in the arrest or extradition of someone charged in another state for a crime related to …abortion, unless that crime is also a crime in Nevada.”
“The bill also bars occupational boards from disciplining or disqualifying a medical provider because they have provided abortions or other reproductive health care services,” the Capital Sun continued.
Lombardo posed with Cannizzaro upon signing the bill.
The governor is a self-professed Catholic who identified himself as “pro-life” during his successful 2022 gubernatorial campaign.
Furthermore, a page on Cannizzaro’s website affirms her pro-abortion stance.
The page, titled “Women’s Rights,” states that she has “fought for women’s reproductive freedoms, sponsoring the Trust Nevada Women Act [SB 179, 2019], which cleaned up antiquated laws governing a woman’s right to choose.”
“The bill was passed at a time when other state legislatures around the country were restricting women’s reproductive freedoms,” her website continues, referring to the pro-life laws that protect unborn children across the country.
Under SB 179, “physicians would no longer have to certify in writing a pregnant woman’s marital status, age and written consent before performing an abortion,” CNN reported in May 2019.
Per CNN’s report, the bill represented “a win for abortion-rights activists at the state level.”
Then-Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat and self-professed Catholic, signed the bill into law. Sisolak lost re-election to Lombardo three years later.
The lawmaker’s website also indicates that she “has expanded access to birth control, passing legislation that allowed women to pick up a 12 month supply.”
It is unclear whether Cannizarro professes the Catholic faith. However, her family held a Catholic funeral for her father when he passed away in 2012.
The lawmaker’s husband Nate Ring is a Las Vegas-based attorney for unions. He is a partner at Reese Ring Velto, PLLC, which calls itself a “labor and litigation firm.”
LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
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