Why the 2024 Nebraska Pro-Life Ballot Initiative Matters for the Whole Country, by Jennifer Bryson

By Jennifer Bryson, Crisis Magazine, July 31, 2024

Jennifer S. Bryson, Ph.D., is a Fellow in the Catholic Women’s Forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

This November voters in Nebraska will be in the unprecedented position of being able to choose between a pro-life and a pro-abortion constitutional amendment.

There is good news for the pro-life movement to report from Nebraska: with little lead time and even less money, an alliance of pro-lifers succeeded in gathering enough signatures from enough different counties to put a pro-life amendment to the State Constitution on the November ballot here. If the “Protect Women and Children Constitutional Amendment” passes, Nebraska would be the first state in the union to have restrictions on abortion in the State Constitution.

However, not all the news from the Cornhusker State is good: In addition to the pro-life measure, here is also a pro-abortion measure on the ballot, making it the first time since the Dobbs decision that voters will have a choice between the two options on the same ballot. …

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