Nebraska 12 Week Abortion Ban

[Voluntarist]

Nebraska Republicans lack votes to pass 12-week abortion ban

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts will not convene the state legislature for a special session to consider stricter abortion laws because Republican lawmakers did not have the votes to pass a ban on abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy, he said on Monday.

The statement by Ricketts, a Republican, comes as several other Republican-led states have grappled in recent weeks with how far to go in restricting abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
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Nebraska currently allows abortions up to 20 weeks post-fertilization. Ricketts had expressed interest in calling a special session to further restrict abortion access, saying he would support a near-total ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.

But in his statement on Monday, the governor said only 30 state senators would support a ban on abortions past 12 weeks. The legislation requires 33 votes to pass.

Nebraska's state legislature is unicameral, meaning it only has one chamber, and is comprised of 32 Republicans and 17 Democrats.

I think what it amounts to is that they don't want a special legislative session this close to the November elections because it would energize Democrats and a high percentage of pro-choice independents.

 

[pcosmar]

I am wondering How Many business owners and individuals in Kansas are looking at other States. To Relocate.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

States must be shills for the machine. If States had the power all along they shouldn't have waited all these years to right the ship.

 

[Voluntarist]

I am wondering How Many business owners and individuals in Kansas are looking at other States. To Relocate.

Yeah, where are those socially responsible companies threatening to leave the state or stop growing in the state because the legislature failed to pass more restrictive abortion laws (the flip side of what Eli Lilly and Cummings did in Indiana)? Berkshire Hathaway? Union Pacific? TD Ameritrade? C'mon guys - get with it.