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Fully KeptAbortion

Introduced the Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act to prohibit medical providers from performing dilation-and-evacuation ('dismemberment') abortions, with criminal penalties and an exception to save the mother's life.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 90%

The promise was the ACT of introducing the Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act, and that act is fully documented. Two reachable PRIMARY sources — the official Senate offices of Mike Rounds and, critically, James Lankford himself — both confirm that on April 4, 2019 the senators introduced the Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act of 2019, with provisions matching the promise exactly: prohibiting physicians from performing dismemberment (dilation-and-evacuation) abortions, imposing a criminal fine and up to two years in prison, and permitting the procedure only if necessary to save the mother's life. The GovTrack source could not be fetched (HTTP 403), and congress.gov also returned 403, but the specific record facts GovTrack was cited for (Rounds sponsor, Lankford cosponsor, introduced 2019-04-04, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, no vote) are independently confirmed via a congress.gov-sourced web search and corroborating ProPublica/NRLC references. The FULL outcome does not overstate the evidence: the promise was to introduce the bill (not pass it), the bill was introduced, and the rating correctly rates FULL rather than CHAMPIONED because Rounds was the formal lead sponsor while Lankford co-introduced as first cosponsor. Minor quote-fidelity imperfections exist — the Rounds fragment "jointly introduced this legislation" and the Lankford save-the-mother clause are light paraphrases rather than verbatim, and the ellipsis-stitched Rounds quote is assembled from separate sentences — but these are not fabrications; every substantive fragment is grounded in the actual source text, and two of the three key phrases in the Lankford citation appear verbatim.

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