2017 Senate Bill 392

Ban “dismemberment abortion”

Introduced in the Senate

May 18, 2017

Introduced by Sen. Tom Casperson (R-38)

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 Health Policy