Nebraska group seeks to turn state's 12-week abortion ban into total one
LINCOLN — Last year, Nebraska voters approved putting a ban on abortions after the first trimester into the state constitution, with exceptions for the life of the mother, rape and incest, instead of adopting a competing proposal that would have left the decision between a woman and her “treating health care practitioner.”
It was a unique choice for Nebraska voters, as the only state where voters faced opposing abortion-related proposals in 2024. Nebraska joined two other states, Florida and South Dakota, in rejecting ballot initiatives seeking to expand abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a ruling that governed reproductive rights for nearly half a century.
But an anti-abortion group is trying to push harder with a new ballot initiative for 2026 seeking to ban abortion outright with no exceptions. Choose Life Now is trying again after failing to get enough signatures for a similar ballot initiative in 2024.
Ballot initiative organizers seeking to amend the Nebraska Constitution must gather signatures from at least 10% of Nebraska voters. The signatures must include 5% of registered voters in at least 38 of the state’s 93 counties.
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/06/11/nebraska-group-seeks-to-turn-states-12-week-abortion-ban-into-total-one/