More than $2.5 million spent to get abortion on Nebraska ballot
It's been an expensive effort to put abortion on the November ballot for Nebraska voters. According to data from the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission, the Protect Women and Children and Protect Our Rights campaigns have raised a combined $3,798,000 this election cycle.Protect Women and Children, which seeks to ban most abortions after the first trimester, raised just over $2 million, with a majority of the money coming from two families. Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts donated $1 million to the campaign and the Peed family, which is known for Sandhills...