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“Homeland Security” Now Means Ensuring Undocumented Immigrants In Detention Don’t Get Abortions

Robin Marty

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

June 10, 2012 - 7:19 am

Tucked in the latest Homeland Security bill is a rider saying undocumented female immigrants in custody cannot get abortions.

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Less Than One Week After National Right To Life Endorses Fischer, Susan B. Anthony List Does Same

Robin Marty

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

May 23, 2012 - 7:27 am

I wonder what took so long? Fischer touted her “100% pro-life” record and desire to “repeal Obamacare” in her introductory television ad.

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National Right To Life Endorses In Nebraska Senate Race, Where Fischer Polls Far Ahead of Kerrey

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Robin Marty

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

May 18, 2012 - 9:37 am

Anti-choice political groups begin lining up in an effort to support the candidate who could flip the senate majority.

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In Startling Move of Consistency, Nebraska Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto of Prenatal Care for Undocumented Women

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Kari Ann Rinker

by Kari Ann Rinker, Independent Activist

April 20, 2012 - 1:28 pm

The Nebraska Legislature has been embroiled in a conservative controversy. The issue at hand has been pre-natal care for immigrant women. The angels and devils sitting on the shoulders and whispering in the ears of the GOP caucus in that state have been tugging their politicians back and forth over the issue, while Nebraskans have waited to see whether hatred for “illegals” would prove more powerful than “saving babies.” 

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Losing the Right to Abortion, Week by Week: Restrictions on Later-Term Abortions Harm Women

Susan Yanow

by Susan Yanow

April 19, 2012 - 1:09 am

The landscape for abortion access is shifting quickly, as state after state passes restrictive laws. Particularly affected by these new laws are women who need abortions later in their pregnancies.

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Nebraska Governor Vetoes Bill to Provide Prenatal Care, Uses Planned Parenthood Scare to Try to Maintain Veto

Robin Marty

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 15, 2012 - 6:07 pm

Once again we will get to see which anti-choice Republicans hate more, Planned Parenthood or abortions.

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How Nebraska’s 20-Week Abortion Ban Became One Family’s Nightmare and Why We Need to Ban The Bans

Danielle Deaver from Nebraska knows the true impact that 20-week abortion bans can have on women and their families, because her state already has a 20-week ban. When Danielle experienced complications in her pregnancy at 22 weeks, her family’s personal loss became a “nightmare.”

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Not All “20-Week” Bans Are Created Equal: A Closer Look at How Abortion Bans Diverge from Medical Protocol and Put Women at Risk

Robin Marty

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 11, 2012 - 8:00 am

There is a lot of confusion about 20-week abortion bans, and for good reason. Not only do they pick arbitrary dates based on medically-disproven claims of “fetal pain,” at least one is so mixed up it shows that “fetal pain” is not even the basis of the ban.

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How Nebraska’s 20-Week Abortion Ban Became One Family’s Nightmare and Why We Need to Ban The Bans

Jodi Jacobson

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

April 10, 2012 - 1:00 pm

Danielle Deaver from Nebraska knows the true impact that 20-week abortion bans can have on women and their families, because her state already has a 20-week ban. When Danielle experienced complications in her pregnancy at 22 weeks, her family’s personal loss became a “nightmare.” You can help prevent the next ban from being put in place.

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Teen Birth Rate Hits Lowest Point Since 1946

Martha Kempner

by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check

April 10, 2012 - 10:53 am

Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the latest teen birth rates which found that fewer babies were born to teen mothers in 2010 than in any year since 1946. 

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