NEBRASKA LAWMAKERS TO DEBATE PROPOSED ABORTION METHOD BAN

LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers voted Tuesday to pull a controversial abortion bill out of committee and put it up for debate this session.

Legislative Bill 814, introduced by State Sen. Suzanne Geist of Lincoln and named the top priority for abortion opponents, seeks to ban a common second-trimester abortion method in Nebraska.

If passed, Nebraska would become the latest state to attempt to prohibit the procedure known medically as dilation and evacuation. The procedure involves dilating a woman’s cervix and removing the fetus in pieces. Opponents call the procedure dismemberment abortion.

But the bill's opponents vowed to use every means possible to stop the ban. Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha said there would be a filibuster taking up time at every stage of debate. If the bill passes, she said, it will be challenged in court.

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