Minnesota Pro-Life Group Supports House, Senate Bills to Ban Saline Abortions
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 12, 2008

Editor's Note: This story contains an account of the saline abrotion process and a picture of a victim of such an abortion.

St. Paul, MN (LifeNews.com) -- A Minnesota pro-life group is supporting a new bill to ban saline abortions in what could become the next targeted method of abortion now that partial-birth abortions have been banned nationwide. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life says the abortion procedure kills unborn children but is also dangerous for women.

Lawmakers introduced House and Senate versions of the bill, S.F. 3575 and H.F. 3947, this week.

“Saline abortions are one of the most brutal and inhumane medical procedures performed today,” MCCL legislative associate Jordan Bauer told LifeNews.com. the rest