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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNebraska bill banning abortions when cardiac activity is detected passes first round of debate
LINCOLN Nebraska anti-abortion advocates celebrated clearing a major legislative hurdle Wednesday in a decades-long effort to curb what they call elective abortions, or abortions by choice.
Every Republican in the Legislature and one Democrat, State Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha, provided the 33 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Lawmakers gave first-round passage to Legislative Bill 626 by a 33-16 margin.
The bill, introduced by State Sen. Joni Albrecht of Thurston, would outlaw abortions after a required ultrasound detects embryonic cardiac activity. That is typically at about six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.
Albrecht described the first-round passage of LB 626 as monumental for Nebraska.
This is about elective abortions, she said about her bills intent. I know every woman and every child deserves love. We can protect their lives.
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/04/12/nebraska-bill-banning-abortions-when-cardiac-activity-is-detected-passes-first-round-of-debate/
roamer65
(36,747 posts)The only thing they love is themselves.
dchill
(38,546 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,696 posts)From the same crowd that support guns over kids, cutting poverty aid programs, forced child marriage, and ripping babies from a mother's arms and tossing them in cages for the great sin of being born on the wrong side of that big beautiful effing wall.
There is not one single thing any of them can say to convince me they care anything abour someone else's child let alone the moms.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)Because those sounds you hear at about 6 weeks that people THINK are the heartbeat........are not a heartbeat. Because the embryo has no heart at that age. Hard to have a heartbeat when you have no heart.
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)when heart cells are first formed?