The Nebraska Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee took nearly eight hours of testimony Wednesday before adjourning without a vote on whether to advance a bill that would outlaw abortion at a point before many women know they’re pregnant.
Hundreds of people crowded the halls of the state Capitol for a committee hearing on a
so-called heartbeat bill.
The bill would ban abortions once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo, which is generally around the sixth week of pregnancy.
