LINCOLN- The legal challenge to the state's new law that restricts abortion and transgender health care for minors has had it courtroom arguments delayed until July 19. For now, the law enacted by LB574 remains in effect. After a 15-minute court hearing held via Zoom on Monday morning, Lancaster County District Court Judge Lori Maret decided to continue the court challenge until July 19 at 10 a.m.

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the ACLU of Nebraska, who are representing a physician and clinic that perform abortions, maintain that LB 574 violates the Nebraska Constitution’s requirement that legislation be confined to a single subject. They are asking the judge to either rule the law unconstitutional or issue a temporary injunction against it going into effect until their lawsuit is decided.

Meanwhile, lawyers with the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, which is defending the new law, are asking the judge to throw out the legal challenge to LB 574. They maintain that the two aspects of the bill — abortion and transgender rights — are compatible because they both deal with health and welfare, and the powers of the state medical officer. The judge said she wanted to hear the arguments on the motions together, at one hearing, rather than some arguments Monday and others July 19.

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