LINCOLN- With just under a month until the start of Nebraska's next Legislative session, many are expecting the Republican majority to, again, attempt to place restrictions on abortion in the state. Following the overturning of Roe V. Wade, states have permission to create their own abortion laws, and Nebraska senators attempted to change the current law earlier this year.

The same is expected to happen again next year, and Planned Parenthood is poised to defend it a second time. "We are absolutely preparing for all options to be on the table during the legislative session," said Andi Curry Grubb, Nebraska's executive director of Planned Parenthood.

With many new faces joining the Legislature, votes could go either way on the issue of abortion, even though Republicans failed to attain a 33-member, filibuster-proof supermajority. Sandy Danek, a representative from Nebraska Right to Life, believes the new Legislature will still lean conservative. "We want to support legislation that will save as many lives as possible in the shortest time frame," said Danek.

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