{"id":28528,"date":"2020-08-13T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:40:02","slug":"abortion-procedure-banned-after-cloture-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28528","title":{"rendered":"Abortion procedure banned after cloture vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Aug. 13 that bans a specific abortion method in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20134\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20134\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"sengeist_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Suzanne Geist&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Suzanne Geist&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20134\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Suzanne Geist\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Suzanne Geist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB814, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Suzanne Geist, bans \u201cdismemberment\u201d abortion\u2014known medically as dilation and evacuation\u2014except in emergency situations.<\/p>\n<p>The bill defines a dismemberment abortion as a procedure in which a person purposely dismembers and extracts a living fetus from the uterus using clamps, forceps or similar instruments. It does not apply to an abortion in which suction is used to dismember a fetus, or removal of a fetus that already is dead.<\/p>\n<p>LB814 also allows for professional injunctions and civil action against any abortion provider found to be in violation of the bill\u2019s provisions.<\/p>\n<p>The intentional and knowing performance of the procedure\u2014unless performed due to a medical emergency\u2014is a Class IV felony, punishable by up to two years imprisonment with 12 months post-release supervision, a $10,000 fine or both.<\/p>\n<p>Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt offered a motion on final reading to bracket the bill. After approximately an hour of discussion, Geist offered a motion to invoke cloture, which ends debate. Lawmakers voted 33-8 to invoke cloture. Thirty-three votes were needed.<\/p>\n<p>Senators then rejected the bracket motion 8-29 and passed LB814 on a 33-8 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Aug. 13 that bans a specific abortion method in Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-28528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-suzanne-geist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28529,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions\/28529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}