Nebraska Court Keeps Abortion Petitions on November Ballot (1)

Initiatives to either expand abortion rights or maintain existing restrictions in Nebraska will go before voters in November, the state’s top court decided Friday in response to challenges seeking to remove the questions from the ballot.

The Nebraska Supreme Court denied petitions from two women challenging Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen’s (R) certification of an abortion rights ballot measure from the campaign Protect Our Rights. The proposal, if approved by voters, would amend the state constitution to add a right to abortion until fetal viability, or roughly 24 weeks into pregnancy, and afterward “to protect the life or health ...