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| Georgia Gov. Pete Ricketts Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr |
While this bill was being discussed, Gov. Ricketts called for an end to “this horrendous form of abortion.”
The bill had to overcome a filibuster before finally being passed by a 33-8 vote.
During a dismemberment abortion, an abortionist tears the limbs from an unborn child's body one-by-one to reduce the child's size. This is because the child has developed too much to be easily removed from the mother's body otherwise. This practice, like all abortion, is extremely inhumane and must be ended.
“We praise Gov. Ricketts and thank him for his unwavering support,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life (NRLC). “This legislation will help protect living unborn children from the brutal death of being torn apart limb by limb.”
