Showing posts with label Bans Dismemberment Abortions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bans Dismemberment Abortions. Show all posts

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Clash of Views as Judge Hears Oral Arguments in Challenge to Kentucky’s Law Banning Dismemberment Abortions

By Dave Andrusko
National Right to Life

“Room packed, views clash as trial over Kentucky abortion law begins” is the headline to Deborah Yetter’s story describing the trial this week in which the ACLU is challenging Kentucky’s “House Bill 454.”

Views did indeed “clash.” Representing EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, the state’s lone remaining abortion clinic, the ACLU’s Alexa Kolbi-Molinas told Judge Joseph McKinley that tearing living unborn babies limb from limb well into the second trimester is safe, safe, safe—for the mother.

And to even have to first inject the living unborn child with potassium chloride is unconscionable—“an unconstitutional barrier for women seeking abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy,” as Yetter paraphrased the ACLU’s argument. That’s one view.

The other view saw the living unborn child as more than the object of the abortionist’s tool whose removal was more than “exercising” a right. That view said, “Think what you are doing—to the helpless child, to her mother, to the profession of medicine.”

But, as always, the gory, brutal, inhumane dismemberment of living unborn babies was brushed off by the ACLU lawyer with euphemisms intended to make unspeakable acceptable. Yetter writes that Kolbi-Molinas also said that supporters of the law will rely on extreme language to make their case.
“This court is going to hear the same inflammatory rhetoric and non-medical terminology,” she said.
What is a non-inflammatory description of an act where an abortionist continually reaches into the mother’s womb with a variety of sharp-edged metal clamps and tools, yanking off parts of the child and pulling them out, piece by piece, and placed in a tray?

According to Yetter’s non-inflammatory story, “The method involves dilating the patient’s cervix and removing the contents of the uterus with forceps.”
“Removing the contents of the uterus”…. That’s the non-inflammatory view of the ACLU which typically is not the least bit shy about using incendiary language when it fights for its clients.

Yetter concludes her story. 
[Judge] McKinley is expected to issue a ruling at a later date, with both sides saying an appeal is inevitable.


Thursday, February 9, 2017

Pennsylvania Senate Votes to Ban Brutal Dismemberment Abortions


National Right to Life

The Pennsylvania Senate has approved a ban on the brutal practice of dismemberment abortions.

Senate Bill 3 will make it illegal to cause “the death of an unborn child by means of dismembering the unborn child and extracting the unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments.”

Currently seven states ban such abortions: Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

The bill now moves to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for consideration. A similar bill overwhelmingly passed in the House of Representatives last legislative session.

“Taking the life of an unborn child by tearing the baby limb by limb from a mother’s womb is cruel and unconscionable,” said Maria Gallagher, legislative director for the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, an affiliate of National Right to Life. “It is a gruesome practice which most Pennsylvanians want to see banned, according to a statewide poll of Commonwealth residents. “
Gallagher added, “Not one Pennsylvania child should be subjected to this form of brutality—and not one mother should have to grieve a child killed in such a barbaric way,”
Senate Bill 3, which is sponsored by state Senator Michele Brooks (Crawford, Erie, Mercer, and Warren Counties), provides exceptions for the mother’s life or for the “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.”

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