Thread by @NebraskaFreedom

The Nebraska Freedom Coalition is once again on hand bringing you live updates from Hearing room 1525, where LB 626, The Nebraska Heartbeat Act, will hear testimony 💯 Everyone currently here in this room is a proponent! @ErinBamer @OWHnews line out door #nebraska #neleg #ProLife

Opponents of the Nebraska Heartbeat Act are screaming in the hallway. @janekleeb you bring your posse??

Senator Joni Albrecht giving her opening remarks as things are underway.
"This is my personal priority bill. Every child deserves love. Babies with beating hearts should be protected."
#prolife

@senatormachaela Cavanaugh is the first to ask questions, not surprisingly. It is loud enough outside the hearing room from disruptors that the conversation back and forth is difficult.

Senator Day is now using inflammatory language and being obstinate towards Senator Albrecht 🤡 Noted, medical emergencies are excluded.
Albrecht pointing out how this is about babies with a heartbeat 💓 Senators Day and Cavanaugh clearly trying to make this about something else

Now with special invited testimony underway, Senator Day is spending all her time on her phone. Maybe PAY ATTENTION JEN and you might learn something..
Alas, maybe she just doesn't care...

"It is a scientific fact that life begins at fertilization. At 6 week gestation, the heart starts to beat." 💓
Dr. Tara Sander Lee #prolife

Ingrid Skop, another invited testifier and gynecologist from TX said,"No mother has lost their life in Texas under our similar law. A woman is 6 times more likely to die from suicide in the year after abortion than from birth."
Why is @CavanaughforLeg on her phone too? Listen up!

Nate Grasz, from the Nebraska Family Alliance, just wrapped up his testimony👍
Some points:
-Only 7 countries in the world allow elective abortions @ 20 weeks..
Some of those countries are guilty of the worst human rights abuses out there...
North Korea, China, etc. 😔

Jess Meeth from the Democrats for Life of America is here today 👍
"The right to life is for every human life. 👶
Human life should never be discarded or disposed of."
#prolife

Senator Day should worry about the health risks from sitting like this and less about murdering babies...

Sherry Jones, State Board of Education member testifying -
"Every abortion takes a life and wounds a woman."
#prolife

At 4:45, opponents of LB 626 will begin testifying. The committee will not get through every proponent, even with them trimming testifying down to 2 minutes a piece from 3, the first time around
@ErinBamer @OWHnews wanted to remind you how many supporters are still here...

Worth noting, while many were giving their proponent testimony today, Senator Day was giving interviews 🙄
Instead of pushing a radical agenda, Jenny should have been listening to constituents!
Clearly, she doesn't care, just as she doesn't care for the life of babies 👎

For the record, this is the number of people who are still in line trying to testify in support of LB 626 as the 3 hour time limit wraps up 👍
#prolife

@senatormachaela Cavanaugh and Senator Day continue asking the same questions.
Senator Albrecht has told them repeatedly, "I've given you an answer. I'm not here to tell you what you want to hear."

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