{"id":179925,"date":"2018-03-02T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=179925"},"modified":"2018-03-05T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:39:33","slug":"florida-house-ban-dismemberment-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-house-ban-dismemberment-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida House votes to ban dismemberment abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Florida House of Representatives has voted 72-42 to ban dismemberment <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionprocedures.com\">abortion<\/a>, or D&amp;E. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2018\/01429\">HB 1429<\/a> had wide support, with even some Democrats voting in favor of the ban. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Erin Grall (R-Vero Beach).<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood, unsurprisingly, is opposing the bill. Missy Wesolowski from Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood <a href=\"http:\/\/health.wusf.usf.edu\/post\/florida-house-passes-abortion-bill-banning-specific-medical-procedure\">said on WUSF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe that it would interfere with the doctor\u2019s ability to provide the safest care that they believe is for their patients. And with the language in the bill being kind of vague, a doctor would be unsure how to safely and legally provide a woman an abortion in the second trimester.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WUSF reports that &#8220;[a]ffiliates of <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/abortioncorporation\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> believe the bill has no medical basis and puts women\u2019s health at risk,&#8221; with a representative calling the bill &#8220;put[ting] politics over health care.&#8221;\u00a0The idea of putting women&#8217;s health &#8220;at risk&#8221; by banning a procedure that dismembers not the woman, but the living human being residing within the uterus, is rather stunning. The text of the bill defines the legislation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dismemberment abortion&#8221; means an abortion in which a person, with the purpose of causing the death of a fetus, dismembers the living fetus and extracts the fetus one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping\u00a0 forceps, tongs, scissors, or a similar instrument that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slices, crushes, or grasps, or performs any combination of those actions on, a piece of the fetus&#8217; body to cut or rip the piece from the body. The term does not include an abortion that uses suction to dismember the body of a fetus by sucking pieces of the fetus into a collection container.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino describes the D&amp;E (or dismemberment abortion) in the video below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgw4X7Dw_3k\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/content\/texas_defends_dismemberment_abortion_ban\">November hearing in Texas on the same issue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three pro-abortion groups, Planned Parenthood, Whole Woman\u2019s Health, and the Center for Reproductive Rights,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/content\/court_bars_pro_lifers_from_abortion_center_sidewalk#texas\">sued<\/a> the state over the law. They claim requiring a baby\u2019s death before the dilation and extraction procedure heaps undue burdens on women and abortionists.<\/p>\n<p>But during last week\u2019s trial in federal district court, state attorneys emphasized the law\u2019s \u201cmore humane\u201d requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state has legitimate interest \u2026\u00a0in protecting the health of a woman and life of a fetus that may become a child,\u201d said state lawyer Darren McCarty. \u201c[The law] regulates the moment of death, the moment of fetal termination, and nothing more. Whether \u2026 the lethal act is going to be, for instance, grabbing the leg and pulling it off the fetus, or whether instead the lethal act is going to be a single injection or perhaps just a snip of the umbilical cord.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/florida\/articles\/2018-03-01\/florida-house-passes-bill-to-limit-type-of-abortion\">US News reports<\/a> that &#8220;House Democrats opposed the bill because they said it would present more obstacles to women seeking legal abortions.&#8221; However, since the law does not ban abortion or even second trimester abortion, it is unclear how it would make abortion more of an obstacle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/florida\/articles\/2018-03-01\/florida-house-passes-bill-to-limit-type-of-abortion\">US News reports<\/a> that 5,192 (7.4 percent) of Florida abortions occur during the second trimester.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/when-two-reporters-decided-to-watch-a-de-dismemberment-abortion-this-is-what-they-saw\/\">READ: <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/when-two-reporters-decided-to-watch-a-de-dismemberment-abortion-this-is-what-they-saw\/\"><em>When two reporters decided to watch a D&amp;E dismemberment abortion, this is what they saw<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Grall, <a href=\"http:\/\/health.wusf.usf.edu\/post\/florida-house-passes-abortion-bill-banning-specific-medical-procedure\">explains that the bill<\/a> is not about outlawing abortion or even making it harder to get an abortion; rather, it is about preventing an even more inhumane procedure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a middle. This bill acknowledges that a woman is having an abortion. It says let us remind ourselves of our humanity. And make sure that we do not tear a child a part in the womb just because they cannot articulate their pain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill has yet to be heard by the Senate, and thus far, does not seem likely to pass that chamber. Grall and the 71 others who have voted for this hope that will change quickly, before the session closes next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida House of Representatives has voted 72-42 to ban dismemberment abortion, or D&amp;E. HB 1429 had wide support, with even some Democrats voting in favor of the ban. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Erin Grall (R-Vero Beach). Planned Parenthood, unsurprisingly, is opposing the bill. Missy Wesolowski from Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":88869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Florida House votes to ban dismemberment abortions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Florida House of Representatives has voted 72-42 to ban dismemberment abortion, with even some Democrats voting in favor of the ban.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-house-ban-dismemberment-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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