![]() ![]() That sent leadership scrambling to prioritize which bills to push through. She and a handful of progressive allies slowed the business of passing laws to a crawl by introducing amendment after amendment to every bill that made it to the Senate floor. The proposal restricting gender-affirming care was the flashpoint of an epic filibuster led by Omaha Sen. Conservative lawmakers wrangled just enough votes to end a filibuster before approving the bill. ![]() The state’s unicameral Legislature passed the bill with the two contentious issues on Friday after hours of heated debate. In Nebraska, people younger than 19 are considered minors. It restricts the use of hormone treatments and puberty blockers in minors, putting the state’s chief medical officer - a political appointee who is an ear, nose and throat doctor - in charge of setting the rules for those therapies. Nebraska’s law also will prevent transgender people under 19 from receiving any gender-confirming surgery. Fourteen states have approved an abortion ban throughout pregnancy. Wade ruling that established a nationwide right to abortion. Supreme Court last year struck down the 1973 Roe v. ![]() North Carolina also recently passed a 12-week abortion ban, among a slew of restrictions enacted in states after the U.S. ![]()
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