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Excerpt from omaha.com
A new petition seeking to recognize fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses as people and grant them the same rights as those who have been born will begin circulating in Nebraska.
Choose Life Now, an anti-abortion organization, filed language with Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen on May 2 seeking to recognize “the personhood of unborn children” in the state constitution.
“A preborn child at every stage of development is a person,” the language of the proposed amendment reads. “Wherever under Nebraska law the term ‘person’ is used or implied, it shall include a child.”