Lawmakers Can’t Muster Enough Votes for a Special Session on Abortion

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The Nebraska Legislature will not call a special session to amend the state’s abortion laws. In the end, it wasn’t about killing babies or giving women a choice. It was about numbers. Yes, numbers. That cold, hard political fact that one side didn’t have the 33 votes they would need – by the rules of the Legislature – to stop an expected filibuster that would delay...

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