{"id":232840,"date":"2020-10-14T06:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232840"},"modified":"2020-10-14T01:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T06:39:40","slug":"court-strikes-texas-dismemberment-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/court-strikes-texas-dismemberment-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Texas dismemberment abortion ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Texas law banning D&E abortions. However, the ban had an unusual exception: the dismemberment procedure was outlawed unless<\/em> “fetal demise” was induced in a more humane manner prior to dismemberment, usually through the injection of a feticide.<\/p>\n

The 2-1 majority appellate opinion in Whole Woman’s Health v. Ken Paxton<\/em>\u00a0stated that the law, known as Senate Bill 8<\/a>, “unduly burdens a woman’s constitutionally protected right to obtain a previability abortion” because it “requires a woman to undergo an additional and medically unnecessary procedure to cause fetal demise before she may obtain a dilation and evacuation abortion.”<\/p>\n

Texas has banned abortion after 20 weeks with exceptions.<\/p>\n

A D&E is often referred to as a “dismemberment abortion” because the abortionist induces death by ripping the legs and arms from a preborn child’s torso and then crushing her skull.<\/p>\n

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