Ohio bill would ban common 2nd-trimester abortion method

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Legislation banning what anti-abortion activists call a "dismemberment abortion" has been introduced in the Ohio Senate.The bill would prohibit doctors from using forceps or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces. The medical term is dilation and evacuation. Seven states already have such bans.The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights says that's the safest and most common way of terminating a second-trimester pregnancy. About 3,00