Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts appeared on CNN’s State of the Union program Sunday and reiterated his support for an abortion ban if Roe vs Wade is overturned.
Host Dana Bash asked Ricketts if he supported a ban in the case of rape or incest. “I believe life begins at conception and those are babies too,” Ricketts says. “So, if Roe vs Wade , which was a horrible constitutional decision, gets overturned by the Supreme Court, which we’re hopeful of, here in Nebraska we’re going to take further steps to protect those preborn babies.”
Ricketts says he will work with speaker of the legislature Mike Hilgers to work on a special session and do more to protect preborn babies. “We’ll have to wait and see what that decision is before we can take further steps, but that would certainly be my intention,” Ricketts says.
Earlier this month a leaked draft suggested the U.S. Supreme Court could be preparing to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. The final ruling on Roe v Wade must come by the end of June, the end if the court’s session until the fall.
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