Federal judge orders barbaric D&E abortion to continue in Texas

A federal judge with a history of overturning pro-life laws in Texas has acted again and reversed the ban in Texas on D&E abortion (also called dismemberment abortion). Texas Senate Bill 8, an omnibus prolife bill, included an amendment that banned D&E abortion. The statute defined these dismemberment abortions as:

This barbaric and cruel procedure is banned in several states, but U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel said the D&E abortion ban was an undue burden to women seeking abortions. As Politico reports, the judge claimed the law would “force women seeking second trimester abortions to resort to riskier, invasive alternatives.”

2nd Trimester Surgical Abortion: Dilation and Evacuation (D & E)

While there’s no abortion procedure that is not brutal and barbaric — as each one destroys a new human life — the second trimester D&E abortion procedure is strikingly cruel. As late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart and U.S. Supreme  Court Justice Anthony Kennedy have explained, this sort of abortion literally destroys a baby piece-by-piece. It is the most common second trimester abortion in the U.S.

But Judge Yeakel says D&E abortion must continue in Texas, lest women be burdened. In his opinion, he wrote:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plans to appeal the decision right away. Paxton’s office released a statement in response to the ruling, which says in part: