Nebraska AG agrees to permanent injunction of state abortion law
[JURIST] Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning [official
website] announced [press release] Wednesday that he has agreed
to a permanent injunction of a Nebraska abortion law [LB 594
materials] because he believes there is little chance that the
law will withstand a court challenge. The law, known as the
Women's Health Protection Act, would have required physicians to
evaluate patients to determine that their choice to have an
abortion [JURIST news archive] was voluntary and to inform the
patients of all risk factors and complications [LB 594 text]
that have been statistically associated with abortion and
published in peer-reviewed journals 12 months prior to the pre-
abortion evaluation, as well as earlier studies. A lawsuit
challenging the constitutionality of the law was filed
[complaint, PDF; JURIST report] in June by women's rights group
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland [advocacy website] and a
federal judge issued a preliminary injunctio