If enacted, the bill would have outlawed abortion at six weeks with exceptions for rape, incest, and medical emergency.

Nebraska enacted a law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the pregnant person.

In response to recent legislative restrictions, citizens initiated a petition drive aiming to place a constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot.

[7] In response, citizens began a petition drive to place a constitutional amendment that would ban elective abortion in the second and third trimester, with exceptions for rape, incest and medical emergency.

[1] The proposed amendment would add the following text to Article I of the Nebraska Constitution: 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.In addition to the proposed amendment, the house resolution also added an explanatory statement to the ballot paper as follows:[8] A vote for will amend the Nebraska Constitution to provide that, 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.