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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, a majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The state’s high court acknowledged in its ruling that abortion and gender-affirming care “are distinct types of medical care,” but found the law does not violate Nebraska’s single-subject rule because both abortion and transgender health fall under the subject of medical care.

The majority relied, in part, on a passage from an 1895 ruling to find the state constitution offers wide latitude on what composes a single subject.

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[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Imagine using a ruling from over 100 years ago to base modern interpretations on.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Way to go, Nebraska Supreme Court. 1895 dumbasses would be so proud.

[-] whodatdair 19 points 4 months ago

The amount of this country I’m interested in visiting is shrinking so fast

[-] ____@infosec.pub 5 points 4 months ago

Right there with you, I make an effort to plan trips around those sorts of criteria. I'm from IL, but still have family (barely) across the IN state line. I can easily enough visit without spending a nickel in IN.

More difficult to go other directions sometimes, but as a matter of course I tend to stay north of the Mason-Dixon with precious few exceptions. That doesn't solve the problem entirely, but eliminates some of the worst offenders.

Nebraska isn't exactly on my bucket list, or 'states I must drive through to get to x' list, so I'll probably be fine avoiding them, but it becomes more and more difficult to track those lists mentally as time goes on.

[-] whodatdair 5 points 4 months ago

Hard to not be like “Oh, this is the sort of electorate you’ve chosen? Fair enough, message received. I’ll go spend my vacation budget literally anywhere else.”

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

The state’s high court acknowledged in its ruling that abortion and gender-affirming care “are distinct types of medical care,” but found the law does not violate Nebraska’s single-subject rule because both abortion and transgender health fall under the subject of medical care.

Time to introduce my Viagra & Assisted Suicide bill

[-] lone_faerie 4 points 4 months ago

"Well they're both on the same piece of paper, so they're clearly a single subject."

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