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TexasTowelie

(116,806 posts)
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 04:25 AM Jan 2022

Nebraska senator introduces 'heartbeat' abortion ban, teeing up legislative fight

On the first day of the 2022 legislative session, Nebraska lawmakers wasted no time diving into one of the most contentious political mires of the moment: abortion.

Sen. Julie Slama (R) of Sterling introduced a bill (LB781) that would ban abortions after a so-called fetal heartbeat is detected.

Meanwhile, Sen. Megan Hunt (D) of Omaha, who has pledged to fight any bans, introduced two bills to expand abortion access.

Slama’s bill would require that physicians, before they perform an abortion, do an ultrasound and see whether they can detect a fetal "heartbeat.” A fetal heartbeat is defined in the bill as “cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac.”

Read more: https://journalstar.com/news/local/nebraska-senator-introduces-heartbeat-abortion-ban-teeing-up-legislative-fight/article_fb60b06e-ccc0-5ff3-8633-4c042bdb65f8.html
(Lincoln Journal Star)

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Nebraska senator introduces 'heartbeat' abortion ban, teeing up legislative fight (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2022 OP
And the battle just goes on and on. niyad Jan 2022 #1
electrical impulse is not a four chambered pump. Claire Oh Nette Jan 2022 #2

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
2. electrical impulse is not a four chambered pump.
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 10:42 AM
Jan 2022

The war on science and women continues.

Laws based on fake Christain outrage.
Old white men to whom the law will never apply.
They fear being a mere plurality.

The Republican Party isn't preventing abortions, They want more dead women.




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