Nebraska lawmakers on Tuesday revived a less restrictive version of an abortion ban that failed last month, tacking it onto a measure banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
The abortion measure would ban the procedure at 12 weeks gestation, making exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. It provides no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies and doesn’t explicitly protect doctors who perform abortions from criminal prosecution.
Restrictions on abortion and transgender people have been consistent targets of conservatives in state legislatures this year, with RepublicanState Sen. Ben Hansen , a chiropractor, called the amended bill a “compromise” that resulted from “extensive conversations” with supporters and “listening sessions” with opponents.
“Kids deserve the right to grow up and not deal with this until they are adults and can make informed decisions,” she said during the debate. “No one in a state that has banned care is hoofing it to California, for example, and then engaging in a relaxed, slow process of discerning the most helpful treatment path forward,” she said, insisting the transgender treatment ban “should fail in order to ensure a Nebraska where everyone belongs.
Riepe said he would have preferred the abortion ban not be coupled with another contentious social issue. He acknowledged having mixed feelings about the transgender measure, but said, “Anything that is irreversible for a young person, I have a problem with.”
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