2017 House Bill 4552

Ban “dismemberment abortion”

Introduced in the House

April 27, 2017

Introduced by Rep. Laura Cox (R-19)

To include “dismemberment abortion” in the acts specified in the state’s ban against late-term “partial birth” abortions. The bill defines this as deliberately and intentionally using an instrument to “dismember a living fetus by disarticulating limbs or decapitating the head from the fetal torso and removing the dismembered fetal body parts from the uterus”.

Referred to the Committee on Law and Justice