Three Ballot Measures in 2024
1. Initiative 439: Right to Abortion Amendment
2. Initiative 434: Prohibit Abortions After First Trimester Amendment
3. Initiative 436: Paid Sick Leave (statute)
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.
See our page on State Constitutions and Abortion for more information about what’s happening around the U.S.
Initiative 439
Right to Abortion Initiative
on ballot: November 5, 2024
result: defeated with 51.3% voting no
See Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.
Initiative 434
Prohibit Abortions After the First Trimester Amendment
on ballot: November 5, 2024
result won with 55.3%
See Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.
Note: This prohibits only after the first trimester, but that’s current Nebraska law. It still leaves open the possibility of future restrictions later, once public sentiment allows.
Ballot Language:
“Except when a woman seeks an abortion necessitated by a medical emergency or when the pregnancy results from sexual assault or incest, unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimesters.”
Sponsoring organization: Protect Women and Children
From their website:
The initiative is in response to the abortion industry’s proposed constitutional amendment, which would: 1) subject women and medical professionals to vague, unscientific standards, putting courts in the middle of the doctor-patient relationship; 2) dangerously expand the scope of abortion practice from licensed physicians to any ‘health care practitioner’; 3) eliminate parental notification requirements, endangering women and girls across Nebraska; and 4) undermine conscience protections for Nebraska medical professionals. All of these outcomes are harmful to women and children in our state.
As medical professionals, we have an obligation to provide a commonsense alternative that reflects Nebraskans’ sensible position on abortion restrictions, protects women’s health and their relationship with their doctors, and preserves parental notification requirements that save lives. We look forward to discussing these critical issues with Nebraska voters in the weeks and months ahead as we work to protect women and children across our state.
Also:
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
Isolating Women and Encouraging Jerks
Initiative 436
Paid Sick Leave Initiative
On ballot: November 5, 2024
result: won with 75.3%
See Ballotpedia page for more information and updates.
See our topic page: Family and Medical Leave for much more information. Alaska and Missouri also have referendums on this topic, and it’s one we cover frequently.
Organization promoting: Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans
See our blog: CLN Blog
Our weekly e-newsletter: Peace & Life Connections
Contact: CLNeditors@googlegroups.com