{"id":92017,"date":"2016-04-08T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=92017"},"modified":"2016-04-08T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:45:10","slug":"minnesota-moves-to-ban-dismemberment-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/minnesota-moves-to-ban-dismemberment-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota moves to ban dismemberment abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Thursday, Minnesota pro-lifers <a href=\"http:\/\/mccl.org\/document.doc?id=790\">introduced<\/a> legislation in both chambers of the state legislature to ban the dismemberment abortion procedure (D&amp;E) in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signs his state&#8217;s <a href=\"\/news\/mississippi-senate-votes-to-ban-dismemberment-abortions\/\">recently-passed bill<\/a>, passing HF 3849\/SF 3487 would make Minnesota the fifth state to ban the dilation and evacuation abortion procedure, which Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life describes as using &#8220;forceps with sharp metal jaws&#8221; to &#8220;twis[t] and [tear] away&#8221; the developing child&#8217;s limbs, and sometimes involves crushing the skull.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino describes dismemberment abortions in greater detail as part of Live Action News\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abotionprocedures.com\/\">Abortion Procedures<\/a> project in the following video:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jgw4X7Dw_3k&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll abortions destroy the life of a developing human being, but dismemberment is outrageously cruel and needs to be stopped,\u201d MCCL Legislative Director Andrea Rau said. &#8220;Halting this inhumane practice is something that most Minnesotans can agree on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News <a href=\"\/news\/39-of-all-minnesota-abortions-now-funded-by-taxpayers\/\">covered<\/a> earlier this week, 39% of Minnesota&#8217;s abortions were funded by tax dollars in 2014. 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Assuming Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signs his state&#8217;s recently-passed bill, passing HF 3849\/SF 3487 would make Minnesota the fifth state to ban the dilation and evacuation abortion procedure, which Minnesota Citizens Concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":88587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[7867,19,1333,6006,819,1118,3913],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minnesota moves to ban dismemberment abortions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Thursday, Minnesota legislation was introduced in both chambers of the state legislature to ban the dismemberment abortion procedure (D&amp;E) in the state.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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