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Austin, Texas, Sep 6, 2017 \/ 12:04 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked part of a Texas law that bans dilation-and-evacuation abortions in the second trimester.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile some pro-lifers may be tempted to despair at today\u2019s ruling, this is the first step in a longer and consequential legal battle over this dynamic and historic legislation,\u201d Texas Right to Life said in an Aug. 31 statement.<\/p>\n

The group said the important question is \u201cwhether this type of procedure is something Texas has the right to prohibit,\u201d not how it will affect women and the abortion industry, as the plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers have said.<\/p>\n

The abortion rule in question bars \u201cdismemberment abortions,\u201d which use forceps and other instruments to remove the fetus from the womb, the Associated Press reports. Critics of the law say \u201cdismemberment abortion\u201d is not a medical term.<\/p>\n

Texas Right to Life, however, defended the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dismemberment Abortion Ban outlaws a specific abortion procedure in which a living preborn child is killed by being torn limb from limb in utero,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n

The Center for Reproductive Rights, which is a party to the lawsuit challenging the measure, says the procedure is the safest and most common way to perform an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel granted the temporary restraining order on the law Aug. 31, saying it was in the public interest to preserve the status quo and allow the parties to the case to put the constitutional questions on record \u201cwithout subjecting plaintiffs or the public to any of the act\u2019s potential harms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge has set a Sept. 14 hearing on the case.<\/p>\n

Texas Right to Life said the law is defensible under the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Gonzales v. Carhart, which says states have a \u201ccompelling interest in protecting the integrity and ethics of the medical profession and in protecting the life of the preborn child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Courts have blocked similar laws in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

The abortion ban is part of Senate Bill 8, which was passed this year response to a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a 2013 state law that helped close more than half of Texas\u2019 abortion clinics. There are now about 20 abortion clinics in the state, compared to 41 in 2012.<\/p>\n

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