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Carter Sherman

Competing abortion measures can appear on November’s ballot, Nebraska supreme court says

Pro-abortion rights protesters gather in a government building.
Pro-abortion rights protesters fill the legislative chamber at the state capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska, in May 2023. Photograph: Kenneth Ferriera/AP

Nebraska residents will vote this November on two competing ballot measures to expand or limit abortion rights, the state supreme court ruled on Friday.

One of the measures that will be put to voters would enshrine Nebraska’s current abortion ban, which outlaws the procedure past 12 weeks of pregnancy, into the state constitution. The other would amend the state constitution to add the right to abortion up until fetal viability, or at about 24 weeks of pregnancy.

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