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This Pride, we are celebrating the contributions and resilience of LGBTQIA+ Nebraskans. At the ACLU of Nebraska, we work every day for a future where expressing your authentic self doesn’t have to be an act of courage. One way we get there is through inclusive and comprehensive health education. 

Veterans Day invites Americans to show support to those who have served in our military. That’s a sizable population in Nebraska – about 127,000 veterans call our state home. Unfortunately, the conversation about supporting veterans always seems to start and end with topics like tax incentives and leaves out important economic justice and social justice issues.

This week, we saw devastating news out of Texas in the fight for reproductive justice. A law that bans most abortions after six weeks, a time when most people don’t even know they’re pregnant, went into effect on Wednesday. Even if someone knew they were pregnant that early, they would have only days to confirm the pregnancy, make a deeply personal decision about the pregnancy, and then try to access care where a host of barriers including mandatory counseling, a waiting period, an ultrasound requirement and a parental consent requirement already stand in their way of choosing abortion.  

Few issues find this much consensus in Nebraska. Faith leaders, business leaders, and Nebraskans across the political spectrum agree that Dreamers deserve permanent protections and a pathway to citizenship.