Texas Court Case Exposes The Gruesome Reality Of Dismemberment Abortion

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Texas Court Case Exposes The Gruesome Reality Of Dismemberment Abortion

Abortion providers in Texas don’t think the state should require them to kill a fetus before dismembering it in its mother’s womb.

 

By John Daniel Davidson

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Editor’s Note: This article contains descriptions of human dismemberment caused by second-trimester abortions.

A bizarre spectacle unfolded this week in a federal district courtroom in Austin, Texas, where a group of abortion providers argued they shouldn’t have to kill a fetus before dismembering it in its mother’s womb, and the state argued that they should.

At issue is a state law passed earlier this year, Senate Bill 8, that would ban live dismemberment abortions. A live dismemberment abortion is exactly what it sounds like: a doctor uses forceps to tear apart a live fetus, limb by limb, and remove it from the mother’s uterus. This is usually done in the second trimester, when the fetus is too large to be suctioned out.

 The law in question wouldn’t ban such a procedure, but it would require abortion doctors in Texas to ensure that a fetus is dead before they dismember it.   

Proponents of abortion have always had to contend with the problem that it’s based on a monstrous lie: a fetus is not really a human being, and abortion amounts to nothing more than removing a tumor or a glob of unwanted tissue, not killing an unborn child.