ACLU suing to block Nebraska measure that combines bans on abortion, gender surgery for minors
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The ACLU is suing to block a Nebraska measure that combines an abortion ban with a ban on gender surgeries for minors in the state. The measure was recently signed into law.
The new law will prevent people under 19 from receiving gender surgery and restrict the use of hormone treatments and puberty blockers in minors when those restrictions go into effect Oct. 1. It will put the state’s chief medical officer — a political appointee who is an ear, nose and throat doctor — in charge of setting the rules for hormone therapies for those minors already receiving that therapy at the time the measure goes into effect and those who demonstrate a "long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria."
The law also imposed an immediate ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. That ban was shoehorned into the trans care bill as an amendment after a separate bill to ban abortion at about six weeks failed to overcome a filibuster.