Devastating News For Babies in Texas
Federal Appellate Court Blocks Enforcement of Texas Ban on Dismemberment Abortions. Women in Texas can continue to access (kill) the most common procedure used to end (abort) pregnancy in the second trimester, after a federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a state law that would have curtailed its use. The law would have required doctors to stop the fetus’s heart before performing a dilation and evacuation abortion — in which doctors use surgical instruments to remove pieces of fetal tissue — except in the case of a medical emergency. Those who violated the law could have faced prison time.