Many political observers expected Nebraska to follow other conservative states that have reduced legal abortions from 20 weeks to 15 or 12. “I know that in Nebraska, after bringing the trigger bill that we did, I knew that I had to be open-minded to some movement,” Albrecht said.
All three anti-abortion groups support Albrecht’s bill.
Polling done for Nebraska Right to Life, the Nebraska Family Alliance and the Nebraska Catholic Conference indicated majority support for restricting abortion after a heartbeat is heard.
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Joni Albrecht of Thurston, the bill’s sponsor, said this week that she would have preferred proposing a full ban with fewer exceptions, like the bill that fell two votes short of passage last year.īut she and other supporters of additional abortion restrictions acknowledged the political reality of recent polling that indicated a majority of Nebraskans favor neither extreme on abortion.ĪCLU Nebraska has released recent polling that indicates a majority of Nebraskans want no additional restrictions on abortion. Organizers say they believe they have the support necessary for passage. More than 25 state senators attended a press conference at midday Wednesday announcing the bill. It spells out protections for in vitro fertilization and procedures after miscarriages. The Nebraska draft contains exceptions for rape, incest and medical threats to a mother’s life. Supporters of new restrictions say the language is modeled after what anti-abortion advocates call “heartbeat bills” passed in Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia, to name some.Įarlier this month, South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled that a law with similar exceptions to the Nebraska proposal was a breach of privacy rights under the state constitution. The bill would rely on the existing medical licensing structure at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to enforce the law, including review by a panel of medical peers. How the bill would workĭoctors, however, would lose their medical licenses if they performed an abortion after an ultrasound finds a “heartbeat” or if they performed an abortion without the required ultrasound. The new proposal would not criminalize patients seeking abortions or doctors performing them, based on draft language obtained by the Nebraska Examiner and verified by the bill sponsor. The bill, expected this week, would ban abortions after an ultrasound can detect a “fetal heartbeat.” The bill specifies this as “steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac.” Reporters listen at the Capitol Rotunda to a new proposal to restrict abortions to about six weeks after gestation. The Associated Press contributed to this report.LINCOLN - Nebraskans would have about six weeks, and in many practical instances less, to decide on ending a pregnancy, instead of the current 20 weeks, under legislation anti-abortion senators plan to propose this session. It also says the law is unconstitutionally vague.Īs of now, pregnancy terminations through 20 weeks’ gestation may continue in Ohio. When Jenkins placed the injunction on the law, he said it is “simply wrong” to argue that a “right does not exist because it is not specifically listed in the Constitution."ĪCLU of Ohio filed the lawsuit in September on behalf of the state’s remaining abortion providers, finding their lawsuit was “substantially likely to prevail on the merits.” The action argues that the abortion ban violates protections in the state constitution guaranteeing individual liberty and equal protection.
Yost wrote in the press release that the appeal was consulted with DeWine, and the notice was filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. Wade decision was overturned, and then was again put on hold in court. The law had been blocked through a legal challenge, briefly went into effect when the landmark 1973 Roe v. Mike DeWine in April 2019 prohibits most abortions after the first detectable “fetal heartbeat.” Cardiac activity can be detected as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they’re pregnant. Previously, the judge had blocked it for 14 days, with the injunction set to expire Oct. 7, Hamilton County Judge Christian Jenkins issued a permanent injunction on the law as a lawsuit brought on by the ACLU of Ohio proceeds. OHIO - The State of Ohio filed its notice of appeal Wednesday to remove the injunction placed on Ohio's "heartbeat" abortion law, Attorney General Dave Yost announced in a press release.
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