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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Inspired by a contentious Nebraska law, abortion opponents in five other states have won passage of measures banning virtually all abortions after five months of pregnancy. The late-term bans — based on the premise that fetuses at that stage can feel pain, a view that has been disputed — are among a record wave of more than 80 restrictions aimed at reducing access to abortion, all of them approved so far this year in state legislatures.

In 2002, Kevin Begos, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Washington correspondent, sent an email to Johanna Schoen, an academic researcher and an assistant women’s history professor at the University of Iowa about records she had pertaining to North Carolina’s eugenics program. In the email, Begos asked Schoen to give him access to those records, Schoen said. Schoen believes that Begos learned about the eugenics after she asked another North Carolina newspaper to do a story about the program. That paper refused, she said. “I was willing to give (Begos) access to anything he wante...

In 2002, Kevin Begos, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Washington correspondent, sent an email to Johanna Schoen, an academic researcher and an assistant women’s history professor at the University of Iowa about