LINCOLN- With just six weeks until signatures for ballot initiatives are due to the Secretary of State's Office, a group of anti-abortion activists has begun circulating petitions for a constitutional amendment that would outlaw elective abortions. The Now Choose Life petition would grant "personhood" under the law to embryos and fetuses.

If passed by voters, the new law would treat embryos and fetuses like a child that has already been born. Rose Kohl, one of the organizers, described the current ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Nebraska Consitution as radical, since it would prohibit the recently passed abortion restrictions.

Kohl also criticized the petition being circulated by Protect Women and Children, which has been funded largely by U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, as an effort aimed at protecting abortion only in the first trimester. "I think the middle one is terrible," Kohl said of that petition. "Ours says life starts at conception," she said of her group's petition, "It would make elective abortions 100 percent banned."

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