Less than a week after publicly opposing Idaho’s Proposition 1 expanding abortion access, Latter-day Saint leaders are leaning on Nevada members to oppose a similar measure on their ballots this November.

“The church opposes” Nevada’s ”Question 6: Right to Abortion Initiative,“ writes the all-male, three-member U.S. Southwest Area Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “Our long-held stance on abortion remains clear and unchanged.”

Nearly identical to the Idaho letter, the Nevada document is three paragraphs and includes directions to lay clergy to read the directive from the pulpit during Sunday worship services.

As before, the all-male signers — led in this case by general authority Seventy Michael A. Dunn — note that while the Utah-based faith remains neutral regarding political parties and candidates, it nevertheless “addresses issues it believes have significant moral consequences.”

Also as before, the signers stress that members should “voice their opposition in a respectful manner consistent with prophetic direction of always demonstrating Christlike love and civility in political discourse.”

While the global faith condemns “elective abortion for personal or social convenience,“ it has long held that there are circumstances in which abortion is allowed. Those include a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, if the “life or health” of the mother is in “serious jeopardy,” and instances when a fetus is found to have “severe defects that will not allow the baby to survive beyond birth.”

Nevada voters are largely expected to pass Question 6, which would enshrine in the state’s constitution the right to an abortion “until fetal viability, or when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient.”

This is similar to the current law, which allows for abortion up to 24 weeks — or later if necessary to preserve the life or health of the patient.

Nevadans approved Question 6 in 2024 with 64% support. Under Nevada law, a petition-driven constitutional amendment must pass a second time during an even-year election to take effect.

Nevada, with a population 3.28 million people, is home to nearly 182,000 Latter-day Saints and more than 330 congregations.