Abortion News

Signed copies have not yet been presented to a federal judge, but for all intents and purposes a settlement agreement between abortion protesters and the city of Aurora is in effect.

The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted not to place tighter restrictions on embryonic stem cell research than those outlined under federal guidelines, which were expanded after President Barack Obama took office.

Have you heard this one yet? That the Senate public option requires a "monthly abortion fee"? Apparently, Boehner claims on his blog that "a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run health plan" under the Senate bill.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski says of the Senate bill wording: "The abortion language would not be the language that I would write ... but I do think that this is a sensible position that we could accept." Robert Giroux / Sen.

WASHINGTON - Let's dispense with three fallacies swirling about the question of abortion coverage in health care reform.

A top Obama administration official on Thursday praised the new Senate health care bill's attempt to find a compromise on abortion coverage a ' even as an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Sen.

Democrats last week came to terms with a lobbying force of unexpected influence in the health care debate: the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a central element of the Roman Catholic Church in America.

A Planned Parenthood director in Texas has a change of heart after watching a baby a crumplea on an ultrasound Julie Smyth Johnson and CFL's Shawn Carney In late September, the abortionist at Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, needed assistance, so he asked the center's director Abby Johnson to hold the ultrasound probe during a dilation and ...

But the 2,074-page document significantly expands access to medical care for Americans who currently lack coverage, contains a modest public option, bars discrimination by insurers against Americans with pre-existing medical conditions and gets remarkably good marks from the Congressional Budget Office.

An airplane towing a banner depicting the hand of a human fetus lying on top of a dime flew for three hours over Lynchburg on Monday and is expected to return today.

Here's how the revelant portion of the conversation went -- MADDOW: Let me ask you about some of the other conventional wisdom here because the sort of conventional explanation for this is that this anti-abortion amendment to health reform resulted mostly from the Catholic bishops pressuring Catholic politicians to support it.

The Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the health care bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives prohibits the use of Federal funds "to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion" except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother.

MEXICO CITY a " Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.A majority of the country's 32 states have now enacted anti-abortion measures in response to Mexico City's legislature ...

How Congress voted the week ending Nov. 13. DEMOCRATS' HEALTH BILL: Voting 220 for and 215 against, the House on Nov.

For weeks, the Catholic Church has asked its U.S. parishioners to work toward ensuring that tough language restricting federal funding of abortion is included in healthcare overhaul legislation.

BOSTON -- It was one of those small shocks that come unexpectedly in the wake of a death.

They killed a killer last week. I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia.

A new commercial is taking aim at Senators crafting a health care reform bill. The pro-choice group, The Center for Reproductive Rights, starts their commercial with a standup comedian telling stories about insurance covering plastic surgeries.

President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul America's healthcare system has exposed a split within his Democratic Party over abortion that threatens to undercut the party's gains in recent elections.

CARSON CITY - Two anti-abortion groups say they oppose a proposed ballot measure that seeks to define a person and override Nevada's abortion laws.