Election 2022: Nebraska gubernatorial candidates on abortion

COLUMBUS, Neb. (WOWT) – With the Nebraska Legislature coming two votes shy of making stricter abortion guidelines this summer season, many citizens within the state are casting ballots based mostly on this one difficulty.

Protests supporting abortion rights popped up throughout the nation this spring and summer season that is one exterior Omaha’s Metropolis Corridor.

Within the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturning 50 years of protections, greater than a dozen Republican-led states successfully banned abortions — and many don’t permit exceptions for rape or incest.

Nebraska presently permits abortions as much as 20 weeks.

Gov. Pete Ricketts tried to deliver again lawmakers for a particular session to cut back the abortion timeframe to fifteen weeks, however fell two votes brief.

“When individuals are having conversations about weeks, I’m mystified,” Jim Pillen instructed 6 Information.

The Republican candidate for governor of Nebraska governor mentioned he believes life begins at conception and says, if elected, he’ll do the whole lot in his energy to guard the unborn.

“I’ve by no means heard anybody having an abortion after which having a celebration that evening. No one can comprehend that burden these poor younger girls reside with the remainder of their life,” he mentioned. “We’ve got to assist them select love and life. We have to return to 1973 when the main target was on infants rising within the mom’s womb.”

Democratic candidate Carol Blood mentioned there are already protections in place.

“Nebraska has legal guidelines in place to guard the unborn, but additionally permits medical doctors to do their jobs — with out interference from attorneys or state authorities,” she mentioned.

The views of the 2 candidates who need to lead the state for the following 4 years are in sharp distinction on this difficulty.

“Politicians aren’t medical doctors,” Carol Blood mentioned. “We don’t belong in a physician’s workplace.”

Blood she believes Nebraska has a superb steadiness now, permitting medical doctors to do their job whereas having limits in place to guard the unborn.

“We’ve got to be actually cautious after we discuss this difficulty. There may be clearly a distinction between an abortionist and an Ob-Gyn,” she mentioned. “The final invoice they pushed within the Legislature was a invoice too far, they usually took away your rights as a affected person and endangered the lives of girls as we’ve seen in different states.”

Pillen mentioned abortion isn’t a query of girls’s rights.

“I’m a believer in ladies’s rights, however … making a call to homicide a child within the mom’s womb, that’s not a lady’s proper,” he mentioned.

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