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Texas defends its ban on brutal dismemberment abortions before federal court of appeals

By Dave Andrusko The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing oral arguments today in an appeal brought by the state of Texas, challenging a lower court decision that overturned the state’s Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban. After a five-day trial over Senate Bill 8 that began on November 2, 2017, “Federal District Judge Lee Yeakel, …

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What if the media conveyed the brutal reality of dismemberment abortions?

By Dave Andrusko Newcomers to the pro-life camp may not be aware that the debate over partial-birth abortions changed the trajectory of the abortion debate. Even Gallup conceded that the publicity “likely caused more Americans to identify as pro-life.” This in spite of our benighted opposition using every dirty trick in the book to attempt to …

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South Carolina and dismemberment abortions

Editor’s note. The following statement was issued by South Carolina Citizens for Life, following Thursday’s vote in the state Senate. A proposal to ban dismemberment abortions lost out for reasons explained below. South Carolina would have been the tenth state to ban these hideous abortions. The South Carolina Senate effectively killed the bill to outlaw …

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Kentucky becomes ninth state to ban dismemberment abortions

By Dave Andrusko When pro-life Gov. Matt Bevin signed House Bill 454, Kentucky became the latest state to ban the vicious and gruesome practice of dismemberment abortions. Eight states had already passed bans on dismemberment abortions: Kansas (2015); Oklahoma (2015); West Virginia (2016); Mississippi (2016); Alabama (2016); Louisiana (2016); Arkansas (2017); and Texas (2017). Predictably, …

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Kentucky House approves ban on dismemberment abortions. HB 454 onto Senate

By Dave Andrusko As still another illustration of the maxim that elections have consequences, the Kentucky House of Representatives Monday overwhelmingly passed House Bill 454 which would ban what supporters call “cruel and gruesome” dismemberment abortions. The measure, passed 71-11, now moves on the Senate. Reporting for The Lexington Herald-Leader Jack Brammer observed, “Kentucky’s GOP …

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Ban on Dismemberment abortions passes Ky. House Committee

By Dave Andrusko For the third time in less than a week, a state legislative body has advanced a bill that would ban the horrific practice of dismemberment abortions. On Wednesday, the Kentucky House Judiciary Committee approved HB 454 which would outlaw the savage procedure of killing a living unborn child by ripping and tearing …

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Florida House passes ban on Dismemberment Abortions 72-42

By Dave Andrusko By an overwhelming 72-42 margin, Florida’s House of Representatives Thursday approved HB1429, a bill which would outlaw the savage procedure of killing a living unborn child by ripping and tearing the baby apart limb by limb. The ban on dismemberment abortions was passed almost exclusively along party lines with all but three …

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Ban on Dismemberment abortions Advances in Senate Medical Affairs Committee

South Carolina GOP Urges Passage By Holly Gatling Last year, the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion (H3548) passed the South Carolina House by an overwhelming, bi-partisan vote of 89-17. On February 15 it passed the Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee by a 3-2 vote along party lines. The bill would outlaw the savage procedure of …

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Pennsylvania House Votes to Ban Brutal Dismemberment Abortions

HARRISBURG, Pa. –Preborn babies in Pennsylvania would no longer have to undergo brutal dismemberment abortions, under a bill passed Tuesday by the PA House of Representatives. Senate Bill 3, which has already passed the PA Senate, would ban abortions in which living babies are torn limb by limb from their mothers’ wombs. The legislation would …

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Texas AG will appeal court decision striking down ban on dismemberment abortions

By Dave Andrusko With a consistent track record of hostility to pro-life legislation, today’s decision by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin striking down Texas’s Dismemberment Abortion Ban came as no surprise. Judge Yeakel’s 27-page -long decision followed a five-day bench trial in which several abortion clinics and abortionists maintained the ban constituted an …

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National Right to Life confident Texas law prohibiting dismemberment abortions will be upheld in Fifth Circuit

WASHINGTON – In a Thanksgiving-eve decision federal district Judge Lee Yeakel struck down part of bill passed earlier this year by the Texas legislature that would have prohibited gruesome dismemberment abortions in the Lonestar State. A temporary restraining order preventing the law from taking effect, put in place by Judge Yeakel in August, was set …

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Judge promises quick response in challenge to pro-life Texas law

By Dave Andrusko Yesterday we published a brief overview of the two-hour hearing held before U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in which pro-abortion plaintiffs asked Yeakel to issue a temporary injunction preventing Texas’ ban on dismemberment abortions from taking effect this coming Friday. If he does, the hold will in place for 14 days with the …

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