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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      I don’t think there have been any new discoveries about what composes a single subject since then.

      (Note that the “single subject” rule has been in Nebraska’s constitution since it was originally written in 1866.)

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      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.

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        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.”

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    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

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    gender-affirming health care

    Correct me if I’m wrong, this is about sex change surgeries and hormonal therapies?

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      Gender-affirming healthcare includes emotional support and just treating someone as their self identified gender, not just physical treatments. In this case it is supposedly only about a law that limited the physical part, but the case wasn’t about the details of the ban but the fact that the ban was combined with the abortion restrictions.

      The court decided that although they were two things, both fall under healthcare so apparently that makes them the same thing.

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          In this case it is supposedly only about a law that limited the physical part, the case wasn’t about the details of the ban but the fact that the ban was combined with the abortion restrictions.

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      you have to be careful with hormones, they irreparably and permanently change your body. my body was filled with testosterone until I was 16 and it has destroyed my body. it even changed my bones. i really really regret not going on hrt earlier, all of this could’ve been prevented.

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        you have to be careful with hormones, they irreparably and permanently change your body

        Yeah, I imagine. Were you properly warned about consequences before you started the therapy?