The Nebraska Secretary of State’s office says it’s received dozens of requests to remove signatures from abortion-related petitions after these voters say they were compelled to sign under false pretenses.Nebraska anti-abortion activists are using deceitful means to get voters to sign their anti-abortion ballot measure to codify a 12-week ban in the state Constitution, the Associated Pressin the state, but this proposal by anti-abortion groups would make this substantially harder to undo.
All of this comes as the deadline looms: Groups working to get a ballot measure approved have to submit 123,000 valid signatures by Wednesday. Protect Women and Children is an effort led by the anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ Nebraska Family Alliance.
As Nebraskans try to enshrine a right to abortion in the state Constitution, resistance from anti-abortion activists by way of deceit has become alarmingly commonplace. That’s probably because, across the board,to Nebraska’s Protect Women and Children effort, framing their anti-abortion measure to remove a right to abortion from the state Constitution as “pro-women” and an act of “valuing them both.