Two Proposed Ballot Measures in 2024
1. Right to Abortion Initiative
2. Paid Sick Leave
For the full list of referendums we’re tracking, see our home page.
See our 2020 results and our 2022 results for past referendums for Nebraska.
Right to Abortion Initiative
hoped for ballot: November 5, 2024
See Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.
Current Status: Gathering signatures. Deadline: July 5, 2024.
See our page on State Constitutions and Abortion for more information about what’s happening around the U.S.
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There is also an initiative to ban abortion filed, but no indication of any campaign to gather signatures.
Nebraskans Embracing Life has a web page indicating a petition drive to make Bellevue a sanctuary city for the unborn. That city has an abortion facility that would be shut down if this were passed. No election timing is suggested.
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Abortion isn’t Freedom for Women
Setting aside the violence (and therefore lack of equal protection) done to unborn children, a point which proponents of this measure steadfastly ignore, the rhetoric they use about women also steadfastly ignores harm done. Here are some of the Consistent Life Network’s blog posts that explain this. They can offer good ideas for opponents of this measure to use in their work:
Abortion and Violence Against Pregnant Women
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture
The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook
Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation
Paid Sick Leave Initiative
See Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.
Current Status: Gathering signatures. Deadline: July 5, 2024.
Organization promoting: Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans
See our topic page: Family and Medical Leave
See our blog: CLN Blog
Our weekly e-newsletter: Peace & Life Connections
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