Texas abortion law targets 'brutal' procedure, doctor testifies
A former abortion doctor praised a Texas law banning second-trimester abortions on living fetuses, telling a federal judge Monday that the regulation was intended to limit a “brutal procedure.”
Dr. Anthony Levatino of New Mexico said he had done about 1,200 abortions in the early 1980s, including 120 dilation and evacuation procedures that were the target of Senate Bill 8, before having a change of heart and becoming an advocate against abortion.
The procedure “is an absolutely brutal procedure in which a living human being is torn to pieces” by medical instruments after the 15th week of pregnancy, Levatino said.
During the first two days of the federal court trial in downtown Austin, abortion providers testified last week that the state law would force them to use untested, painful and risky procedures to attempt fetal demise before a second-trimester dilation and evacuation abortion.
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