Ban on Dismemberment Abortion

Pro-Life First: Judge Upholds Oklahoma Ban on 'Dismemberment Abortion'
in Historic Decision

"Dismemberment abortions are barbaric, brutal and subject unborn children to more cruelty than we allow for death row inmates. It is unconscionable to think that we would allow this practice to continue. Judge Truong is to be commended for declaring this legislation constitutional." - Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter

An Oklahoma state judge on Friday upheld the state's ban on a common late-term abortion procedure, making it the first time a judge in the US has reviewed such a law and not overturned it. Oklahoma County Judge Cindy Truong handed down her decision from the bench.

The law's text describes a D&E abortion as an abortion which involves the dismembering of "a living unborn child" and extracting him or her "one piece at a time from the uterus through use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments."

"It shall be unlawful for any person to purposely perform or attempt to perform a dismemberment abortion and thereby kill an unborn child unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother," the law states.

The law is known as the Oklahoma Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act.