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Jim Pillen

Abortion rights group calls Gov. Pillen’s recent news conference ‘misleading propaganda’

The toes of a baby peek out of a blanket at a hospital in McAllen, Texas. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the increase of U.S. infant mortality rate to 3% in 2022 — a rare increase in a death statistic that has been generally been falling for decades. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Infant deaths increased significantly after U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Pregnant Woman

This Nebraska mom had to leave the state to get life-saving abortion care

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is seen during senate votes in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Republicans block bill that would have affirmed the right to life-saving abortion care

Tony Vargas

Democratic state Sen. Tony Vargas: ‘I’ve always put Nebraskans first’

Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks before President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, at Prince George's Community College, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 in Largo, Md. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Medicare secures billions in savings on prescriptions

North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley, center, speaks while Dave Almeida with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, left, and Gov. Roy Cooper listen at an Executive Mansion announcement on Monday July, 1, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Biden-Harris administration backs action to cut medical debt

Two anti-abortion protestors are reading the Supreme Court's decision on emergency abortions in Idaho as they are standing vigil outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP)

Four common myths perpetuated by anti-abortion activists

Two anti-abortion protestors are reading the Supreme Court's decision on emergency abortions in Idaho as they are standing vigil outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP)

Anti-abortion organizations attack Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy