Nebraska legislature votes to add 12-week abortion ban into bill to ban sex reassignment surgery for minors
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Nebraska's Legislature voted to add a GOP-authored proposed 12-week abortion ban into a bill that would ban sexual reassignment surgeries for minors.
The plan won the 33 votes it needed in Nebraska's one-chamber, officially nonpartisan legislature to end debate and set up other votes to advance it. It must now survive a final round, which could happen as soon as Thursday, to pass.
Throughout, hundreds of protesters filled the Capitol rotunda just outside the chamber doors, nearly drowning out debate at times with chants, shouts and foot stomping. Several protesters also stood in the balcony inside the chamber chanting, "One more vote to save our lives; you can't defeat our human rights!" before the balconies were cleared. Lawmakers who voted for the merged bill fled the building immediately after through a back tunnel with state police escorts to avoid facing angry protesters — leading Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt to berate them as cowards.