“If we’d had a special session, it probably would have been in September. We’re coming back in January, anyway…we’re reasonably confident this will be at the forefront of the session…and you will have 16 to 18 new senators there, also. It would have been difficult, probably, in a special session to pass something with the existing body. Let’s save the hundred thousand dollars….let’s learn from the other states that are in court right now…Idaho, Texas, Tennessee. A lot of these states have what they call trip laws…and that’s what Nebraska would have had, had that passed.”

Senator Tom Brandt, of Plymouth says lawsuits are being filed on both sides of the issue across the U.S., since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe V. Wade.