Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton
Description: Abortionists challenged a Texas law, SB 8, that forbids causing an unborn child’s death by “corporal dismemberment,” in which the child dies “by bleeding to death as his or her body is torn apart.”
5th Circuit upholds Texas limits on dismemberment abortions
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Elissa Graves regarding Wednesday’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton to reverse a lower court’s decision against Texas limits on dismemberment abortions:
“Texas has the right to respect the life of unborn children, and it did so when it chose to strictly limit the gruesome procedure of dismemberment abortions. The 5th Circuit was on solid ground to reverse the lower court’s decision striking down the law, finding that ‘the district court committed numerous, reversible legal and factual errors.’ What the Texas law, SB 8, forbids is causing an unborn child’s death by ‘corporal dismemberment,’ in which the child dies ‘by bleeding to death as his or her body is torn apart.’ SB 8 prohibits the use of this grisly and unnecessary method before the death of the unborn child. The law is both humane and constitutional. As the 5th Circuit rightly found, the abortionists who filed this lawsuit ‘have utterly failed to carry their heavy burden of showing that SB8 imposes an undue burden on a large fraction of women in the relevant circumstances.”
ADF filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the 5th Circuit in favor of upholding the Texas law.
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