Posted on 04/06/2016 6:51:05 PM PDT by Morgana
The Mississippi state legislature has given final approval to a bill to ban dismemberment abortions tearing babies limb from limb.
Today the House concurred with the Senate version on a vote of 85-32. House Bill 519 is authored by Rep. Sam Mims, R-McComb and now heads to pro-life Governor Phil Bryant to become law.
Mississippi Right to Life President Barbara Whitehead commended the legislature for passing this legislation to protect unborn children in comments to LifeNews.com
“Dismemberment abortion is unimaginably cruel and has no place in Mississippi. The Mississippi Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act will end such dangerous procedures in our state,” Whitehead said. “We look forward to Governor Bryant signing this legislation and joining the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and West Virginia in enacting this strong pro-life law.”
Dismemberment abortion, performed on a fully-formed, living unborn baby, is a barbaric and dangerous procedure in which the unborn child is literally ripped apart in the womb and pulled out in pieces. The law embodies model legislation from the National Right to Life Committee that would ban “dismemberment abortion,” using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a living unborn baby to remove him or her from the womb in pieces. Such instruments are used in dilation and evacuation procedures.
“Dismemberment abortion kills a baby by tearing her apart limb from limb,” said National Right to Life Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D. “Before the first trimester ends, the unborn child has a beating heart, brain waves, and every organ system in place. Dismemberment abortions occur after the baby has reached these milestones.”
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But would such an abortion ban be constitutional given the Roe v. Wade decision? The group points to the high court’s ruling in the partial-birth abortion case as grounds for banning dismemberment abortions too.
In his dissent to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2000 Stenberg v. Carhart decision, Justice Kennedy observed that in D&E dismemberment abortions, “The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.” Justice Kennedy added in the Court’s 2007 opinion, Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion, that D&E abortions are “laden with the power to devalue human life…”
“When abortion textbooks describe in cold, explicit detail exactly how to kill a human being by ripping off arms and legs piece by piece, civilized members of society have no choice but to stand up and demand a change,” added Spaulding Balch. “When you think it can’t be uglier, the abortion industry continues to shock with violent methods of abortion.”
Supporters of the ban also point to the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court Gonzales ruling, which said: “Casey [the 1992 Supreme Court decision] does not allow a doctor to choose the abortion method he or she might prefer …[and physicians] are not entitled to ignore regulations that direct them to use reasonable alternative procedures.”
not fair!!
The last I heard they didn't want to administer anesthetic to the baby as it could impact the life of the mother. An early abortion it might not be feasible.
There is no good way to murder a baby. Those abortion doctors have totally hardened hearts.
can they still perform abortions that suck out the brains of babies too?
stupid article anyway. No one can ‘ban’ an abortion any more than someone can ‘bam’ murder.
All one can do is make either illegal, so there is a penalty associated with them.
Ms ping
Thank you, Mississippi. God, how sick this country has become. At least this brings some heart and sanity.
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