LINCOLN- Supporters of two competing abortion-related ballot initiatives spent Monday at the Nebraska Supreme Court seeking rulings by Friday’s deadline to finalize the ballot. Justices heard oral arguments in three lawsuits: two seeking to block an abortion-rights amendment from the fall ballot and one arguing that the competing measures should appear on the ballot otherwise neither should appear.

The lawsuits have drawn national attention because Nebraska could be the first state since Roe v. Wade was overturned to weigh competing abortion measures on the same ballot. One initiative favors abortion rights and the other favors abortion restrictions. Thus far, every state that has voted on abortion changes since Roe has sided with abortion rights.

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