The latest strategy to stop women from getting a safe abortion

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/05/09/3776058/de-ban-state-trend/

A number of states have unleashed a new strategy to further restrict a woman’s legal right to end a pregnancy: Ban the safest way to perform a second-trimester abortion.

Called Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), this type of surgical abortion has become the only legal option left for abortions that take place after 14 weeks that doctors consider safe. But, using inflammatory language describing the D&E procedure as “dismemberment” abortion, state lawmakers are moving to block doctors from using it.

In the words of Mary Spaulding Balch of the National Right to Life Committee — the anti-abortion group behind draft legislation for D&E bills: “Dismemberment abortion kills a baby by tearing her apart limb from limb.”

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"This certainly isn’t an issue for use to take lightly,” said Leslie McGorman, the national political director at NARAL Pro-Choice America, who is working to educate voters on what these bills would really do. “If we have an anti-choice president and Supreme Court, it could easily push us back to a pre-Roe era.”