Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban.
FILE - Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen holds a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 4, 2020, to discuss the results of the 2020 election. AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)competing abortion measures
In Nebraska, organizers of the competing efforts announced last month that they turned in far more signatures than the approximately 123,000 required. Evnen's office said that if both measures are approved by voters, Gov. Jim Pillen is responsible for determining whether there is a conflict. Asked if there is a scenario in which the Republican governor could order the measure that gets the lesser number of votes to be enshrined in the constitution, Evnen's office said it didn't see how that could occur, but added it could not speak for the governor.
Most Republican-controlled states have implemented abortion bans of some sort since Roe was overturned, which ended 50 years of the right to abortion across the U.S. But abortion rights supporters have prevailed in all seven ballot questions on the issue that have gone before voters at the state level since 2022.
In Nebraska, abortion could play an outsize role in the Omaha-centered 2nd Congressional District for both the U.S. House and presidential races.
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