Conservative Institute
Liberals love abortion, and they hate anything that even slightly inconveniences them on their quest to kill unborn babies. That’s why this decision from the Nebraska Supreme Court is so huge.
Nebraska’s Supreme Court has agreed to expedite a hearing on a lawsuit that could keep voters from deciding whether to expand the right to abortion in the state.
According to the Associated Press, Nebraska’s Supreme Court has a hearing set for September 9 for “arguments over the suit filed by the conservative nonprofit Thomas More Society,” according to court records.
Last month, the secretary of state said that the measure had received enough signatures to appear on the November ballot.
Possible changes
The measure that the secretary of state was pushing would “enshrine in the state constitution the right to have an abortion until viability, or later to protect the health of the pregnant woman.” Instead of challenging the measure on moral grounds, the Thomas More Society is challenging the measure based on technical grounds.
The state law in Nebraska prohibits “addressing more than one subject.” As a result, conservatives are saying that this measure is tackling at least three separate issues:
– Abortion rights until viability
– Abortion rights after viability to protect the woman’s health
– Whether the state should be able to regulate abortion
Matt Heffron, an attorney who works with the Thomas More Society, said that this measure is exactly the type of situation that Nebraska’s single-subject law is designed to prevent. In many cases, lawmakers will make the public accept laws or regulations they don’t like in order to get the things they do like.
Nebraska’s single-subject law is meant to prevent lawmakers from essentially being able to force citizens into accepting things they don’t want by bundling them with things that the citizens think that they need.
In this case, liberals were trying to strongarm people into accepting abortions for any reason by bundling it with abortion before viability…
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