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(Daily Signal<\/a>) Sen. James Lankford introduced legislation<\/a> last week that would ban late-term dismemberment abortion across the country, in efforts to build consensus and find common ground among Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of arguments right now about life and about its role in American society,\u201d Lankford told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, not all Americans agree on the issue of life and when life begins and abortion,\u201d the Republican from Oklahoma said. \u201cI have asked the question, \u2018Can we at least agree on some basic thing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

A dismemberment abortion, one of the methods that can be used in a late-term abortion, should not be used, Lankford told The Daily Signal.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., introduced identical legislation in the House last year.<\/p>\n

The Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act<\/a> defines a dismemberment abortion as an abortion that uses \u201cclamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments\u201d to \u201cslice, crush or grasp a portion of the unborn child\u2019s body in order to cut or rip it off or crush it,\u201d with the purpose of causing death to the unborn child.<\/p>\n

When a child is too large to suction, physicians \u201cwill actually go in and rip the child\u2019s legs and arms off and pull it apart piece by piece and then will suck out each piece of the child,\u201d Lankford said.<\/p>\n

The senator says this is similar to partial-birth abortion<\/a> where a physician kills the baby partway through delivery. Partial-birth abortions are banned<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have as a nation already said we don\u2019t do partial-birth abortions, where we have this late-term procedure where they deliver the child partially and then kill it while it\u2019s only partially in the womb,\u201d Lankford said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know now that children who are in the womb in late-term can feel pain,\u201d he added. \u201cAt least we should agree that in the womb when a child can feel pain, we shouldn\u2019t pull them apart limb by limb.\u201d<\/p>\n

A physician that knowingly ends the life of an unborn child through a dismemberment abortion would be subject to fines and imprisonment for up to two years, according to the bill.<\/p>\n

A woman on whom an abortion has been performed in violation of the dismemberment ban could seek civil action, including seeking \u201cobjectively verifiable money damages for all injuries, psychological and physical, occasioned by the violation\u201d and \u201cstatutory damages equal to three times the cost of the abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do pray, not only for those that are yet to be born, but I pray a lot for moms that have had an abortion and the grief that they experience based on that after the fact,\u201d Lankford said. \u201cI pray for those that actually perform abortions that they will at some point awaken to what\u2019s happening right in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The legislation\u2019s ban excludes dismemberment abortions that are performed \u201cto save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely we can all agree that dismantling a child in the womb during a late-term abortion is inhumane,\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u2014@SenatorLankford<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Six states<\/a>\u2014Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana\u2014have taken similar action<\/a> to ban dismemberment abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly this is an effort to take some of the tactics of the past\u2014using very graphic descriptions and inflammatory language\u2014to ban access to abortion,\u201d Elizabeth Nash, the states issue manager at the Guttmacher Institute, told ThinkProgress<\/a>in January 2015 in response to states introducing similar legislation on dismemberment abortion.<\/p>\n

The Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act does not limit abortions that are performed by a method other than dismemberment.<\/p>\n

In the House, the legislation was referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice in October 2015. Twenty-four representatives currently co-sponsor<\/a> the bill. Lankford introduced his identical bill Thursday in the Senate. The legislation was referred to the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely we can all agree that dismantling a child in the womb during a late-term abortion is inhumane and is not reflective of American values,\u201d Lankford said in a prepared statement<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at the Daily Signal <\/a>and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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