{"id":94243,"date":"2016-05-12T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=94243"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:44:47","slug":"alabama-governor-signs-dismemberment-abortion-ban-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-governor-signs-dismemberment-abortion-ban-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama governor signs dismemberment abortion ban into law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Thursday, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/05\/12\/alabama-governor-signs-bill-to-ban-dismemberment-abortions-tearing-babies-limb-from-limb\/\">signed<\/a>\u00a0a ban on second trimester D&amp;E abortions into law, making Alabama the fifth state to ban the gruesome procedure.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News <a href=\"\/news\/alabama-senate-passes-dismemberment-abortion-ban\/\">reported<\/a>, a ban on D&amp;E abortions, also known as dismemberment abortions, passed the Alabama Senate with an overwhelming majority\u00a0as it passed\u00a0through the state\u00a0legislature.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino, explains the process of dismemberment abortions in the following video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgw4X7Dw_3k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In his dissent to the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in\u00a0<i>Stenberg v. Carhart<\/i>, Justice Anthony Kennedy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/05\/12\/alabama-governor-signs-bill-to-ban-dismemberment-abortions-tearing-babies-limb-from-limb\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">argued<\/span><\/u><\/a> that during dismemberment abortions, \u201cThe fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Right to Life Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D., explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dismemberment abortion kills a baby by tearing her apart limb from limb.Before the first trimester ends, the unborn child has a beating heart, brain waves, and every organ system in place. Dismemberment abortions occur after the baby has reached these milestones&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When abortion textbooks describe in cold, explicit detail exactly how to kill a human being by ripping off arms and legs piece by piece, civilized members of society have no choice but to stand up and demand a change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed\u00a0a ban on second trimester D&amp;E abortions into law, making Alabama the fifth state to ban the gruesome procedure. As Live Action News reported, a ban on D&amp;E abortions, also known as dismemberment abortions, passed the Alabama Senate with an overwhelming majority\u00a0as it passed\u00a0through the state\u00a0legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":88869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[695,1334,3291,5503,3566,197],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alabama governor signs dismemberment abortion ban into law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed a ban on second trimester D&amp;E abortions into law, making Alabama the fifth state to ban the gruesome procedure.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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