Abortion bill would allow prosecution of providers

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., has introduced legislation to ban abortions motivated by the gender or race of the baby, which would also allow for the prosecution of abortion providers (including Planned Parenthood, potentially) who offer sex-selective or racially-selective abortions.

“Sex-selection is happening in the United States,” Franks wrote in a letter to other legislators last week, citing a study that showed “certain segments of the U.S. population –particularly those coming from countries that practice sex-selection abortions — have unnaturally skewed sex-ratios at birth caused by sex-selection “most likely at the prenatal stages.”