Nebraska advocacy organizations that support sexual assault survivors oppose abortion bans for exactly that reason: they dictate the terms of how someone must process their trauma to get the care they need.
Instead, these exceptions could force pregnant Nebraskans to wait until their health condition worsens to the point where their life is clearly at risk or to subject themselves to the trauma of disclosing a sexual assault. The bill’s exceptions aren’t workable solutions.ĭespite assurances that this legislation would allow abortion care for medical emergencies and for survivors of sexual assault, it’s important to remember that exceptions rarely make it possible for someone to get abortion care in their community. The bottom line is that no one should face the life-altering consequences of being denied care or forced to delay essential health care. In that time, states have seen serious pregnancy complications significantly increase. People have had to travel hundreds of miles for needed abortion care. Since the Dobbs decision, we have seen the catastrophic impacts of extreme abortion bans across the country. Even Nebraskans who know they need abortion care would face enormous challenges to accessing care, ranging from appointment availability to travel considerations to the state-mandated, 24-hour waiting period among many other restrictions on care that already exist. For those Nebraskans, this would have the same effect as a total ban. Many people who need abortion care do not even know they are pregnant by that point. LB 626 would ban abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy, just two weeks after a missed period. It’s effectively a total ban on abortion. Here are six things to know about the extreme six-week ban that has been proposed. The fact is most Nebraskans support abortion access. The freedom to control our bodies, lives and futures is vital to all of us, and we and thousands of Nebraskans are ready to do all we can to defend that freedom. Anti-abortion state senators recently introduced LB 626, an extreme bill that would ban abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is legal in Nebraska, but access is once again under threat.
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