ADF files brief supporting Texas limits on dismemberment abortions
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2020
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Elissa Graves regarding a friend-of-the-court brief that ADF filed Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in support of Texas limits on dismemberment abortions at issue in Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton:
“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. That is why we are asking that the full panel of the 5th Circuit reverse the district court’s decision striking down the law. 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 method before the death of the unborn child. As we explain in our brief, the law is both humane and constitutional.”
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.
“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. That is why we are asking that the full panel of the 5th Circuit reverse the district court’s decision striking down the law. 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 method before the death of the unborn child. As we explain in our brief, the law is both humane and constitutional.”
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.
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