Volunteers in Bellevue, Nebraska are in the home stretch of gathering the 7,800 signatures needed to implement a sanctuary city for the unborn ordinance, which would ban abortion and abortion clinics from the city.
David Zebolsky of Nebraskans Embracing Life tells AFN success in this effort would accomplish another objective.
"The petition drive is a way for us to shut down an abortion facility in our midst in the state where our sidewalk advocates are reporting an increase of 100% -- double the abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24th," he explains. "In Nebraska, two out of three abortions happen at this Bellevue Abortion facility."
The clinic is owned by 81-year-old Leroy Carhart, who is known for sending numerous patients to hospital emergency rooms after his botched abortions and for causing the deaths of at least two women.
Christians, Catholics, and pro-life people of no faith are working together to get enough petition signatures.
"It's helped in many ways to wake up the community to the reality of abortion in their midst," Zebolsky reports. "We're getting more and more signatures as time progresses, and we remain hopeful that we'll be able to get the verified count that we need to bring it before the city council."
The council can vote to pass the ordinance, but if it does not, then the proposal will automatically go on an election ballot.
In Indiana, a pro-life group has found some concerning information while researching an abortionist's own documentation.
Melanie Lyon of Voices for Life explains that Indiana law requires abortionists to file terminated pregnancy reports with the state to help document the status of abortion. She was researching the documents provided by abortionist Amy Caldwell, who has performed multiple chemical abortions, including on two women who died.
No details were given about the first patient's cause of death, but the second patient was 21 weeks pregnant. Lyon points out that chemical abortion pills are only meant to be used up to the 10th week.
"I know there's also a case of a baby that was born alive from a botched pill abortion by Caldwell at Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital in Indiana," Lyon continues. "The baby lived for two or three hours, according to Caldwell's documentation."
Lyon found no indication of steps being taken to save the baby's life.
Meanwhile, Caldwell is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit aiming to overturn Indiana's abortion restrictions in SB 1.
"She's got a vested financial investment in keeping abortion legal in our state, even if it's at the expense of women and children," the pro-lifer notes.
So she believes Caldwell's record is an asset to the state's defense of the law.
"If anything, her behavior is a case that we can make that this ban should be in place for the protection of women and children in our state," Lyon decides.
Indiana's pro-life law prohibits abortion at any stage of gestation, except in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies, or when the woman's life is at risk. It has been temporarily blocked in court, and the lawsuit is designed to keep it off the books.
