LINCOLN- A third lawsuit was filed in Nebraska against competing abortion amendment proposals. More than 20 doctors supporting an abortion rights amendment sued to press the Nebraska Supreme Court to either pull both initiatives or keep both of them.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has agreed to hear all three of the lawsuits before Secretary of State Bob Evnen must finalize the Nov. 5 general election ballot on Sept. 13. The Supreme Court announced it would hear oral arguments for the new both-or-none lawsuit and both of the refiled lawsuits, which were brought from residents of Lancaster and Douglas Counties. In the both-or-none lawsuit, the doctors say they “reluctantly” filed because of the other two legal efforts to deny voters a chance to weigh in.

If the ballot measures survive, Nebraska would be the first state since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade to have competing abortion-related constitutional amendments on the same ballot. If both pass, the measure with the most votes becomes law.

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