Arkansas State Senate Approves Late-Term Abortion Ban

http://feminist.org/news/newsbyte/printnews.asp?id=11538, From what I can see they are really starting to crack down on the practice of abortion. Arkansas state Senate passed a bill to ban partial abortion birth abortions by a 30 to 3 vote. The same bill was also passed in Arkansas state House of Representatives. A partial birth abortion is a medical procedure that is not restricted to a particular stage of pregnancy. The only exception in the bill made by the legislation is to save the life of the mother. Since passing the bill, doctors who perform the procedure under the proposed law can face felony charges. Democratic state Representative, Dawn Creekmore, who is the bill's sponsor, says that the law would only affect abortions after the first trimester. Dr. William Harrison critisized the bill saying that it is to vague, because after eight or nine weeks any abortion, potentially could be defined by the bill. The legislation is parallel to federal law that bans so-called partial birth abortions. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold the federal Partial Abortion Act, which was passed by the Republican controlled Congress in 2003 and bans the same abortion procedure.
I am glad that Arkansas has passed a bill to ban this procedure because I feel that it is a gruesome act and flat out inhumane. I only hope that other states will follow Arkansas in the decision to ban partial birth abortions. I can agree with the procedure in order to save the mother's life, but is the only case that I see it being exceptable.