A new Nebraska law is now the subject of a lawsuit filed in the District Court of Lancaster County. In its amended form, Legislative Bill 574 combined the two most controversial issues of the legislative session: restrictions on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth and abortion. Since it became law, the ACLU and the ACLU of Nebraska are suing on behalf of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and Dr. .
By Belle Taylor-McGhee for Ms. Magazine.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for Ohio News Connection reporting for the Ms. Magazine-Public News Service Collaboration When Kansas forcibly rejected an amendment this past August that would have removed the right to abortion from the state’s constitution, the country was stunned—and abortion-rights advocates were ecstatic, seeing in this victory a way forward to secure new and greater protections for abortion access and bodily autonomy by enshrining the right to abortion into state constitutions. .
Rather than introducing the proposal as a new bill, Republicans gutted a different piece of legislation and inserted the abortion bill, allowing them to circumvent the usual committee process a move Democrats called fitting for an autocracy.