Abortion News

Mitt Romney faulted President Barack Obama's original push to require church-affiliated employers to pay for birth control as an "assault on religion," but as Massachusetts governor, Romney was largely silent about a state law that required virtually the same contraceptive coverage.The Massachusetts law, which essentially mirrored Obama's proposal, ... (more)

President Barack Obama announced a new compromise Friday designed to calm the troubled waters of his administration's policy of requiring religious groups' health care plans to cover contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.

Now that Rick Santorum's rising in the Republican primary race we can expect him to get some long-overdue scrutiny.

LANSING, Mich. - Rallied by the approval last fall of a state law banning so-called "partial birth" abortion, Michigan abortion opponents are pushing for more in 2012 - from a "Choose Life" fundraising license plate to a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

An influential anti-abortion legislator is blocking the push for a ban on abortion in the Kansas Constitution, highlighting a split among abortion opponents over tactics and frustrating the group advocating the "personhood" proposal Friday.

Senior administration officials are pleased with the initial response to President Obama's pending announcement on an "accommodation" for religious organizations regarding a new rule that would require employers to provide health insurance that covers birth control.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that her predecessors on the high court mistimed the milestone 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.

A federal appeals court has denied a request to reconsider a lawsuit challenging a Texas law that requires doctors to perform a sonogram before an abortion.

Stories involving a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew typically end with a punch line.

Social issues don't typically dominate the discussion in shaky economies. But they do raise emotions important to factors like voter turnout.

A divided Senate committee advanced separate bills today that would create a misdemeanor penalty for coercing an abortion and would expand the state's wrongful death statute to include a fetus.

On Monday, Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times had a post on his Loyal Opposition blog analyzing whether or not abortion is rare.

A controversial club at the University of Victoria was chastised this week for an anti-abortion campaign held on campus in the fall.

Birth and abortion rates among U.S. teens fell to record lows in 2008 as increased use of contraceptives sent the overall teen pregnancy rate to its lowest level since at least 1972, a study showed on Wednesday.

Abortion is a delicate topic of conversation in general, but Rosie O'Donnell and Chelsea Handler dove right into it on " The Rosie Show " . Handler talked about her own experience as a 16-year old girl who got pregnant.

In a rare show of political force, House Speaker John A. Boehnertook to the House floor to criticize the Obama administration's new rules on contraceptives and vowed the GOP -led chamber will work to overturn what he characterized as an attack on religious freedoms.

Their fears have been stoked by the apparent re-emergence of a group calling itself Liberals for Life, which is promoting Trifon Haitas's bid to represent the party in a March 19 byelection in Toronto-Danforth. The group has issued an "urgent message" to Liberals in the riding, urging them to support Haitas, a Greek-Canadian journalist who formerly ... (more)

On Wednesday, hundreds of anti-abortion advocates flooded the halls of the state Capitol as part of a Rose Day ceremony, urging them to pass more anti-abortion laws.

An anti-abortion group has refiled for a third time a Nevada prenatal personhood initiative that seeks to ban birth control, embryonic stem cell research or other procedures that intentionally kill a fetus.

A South Dakota House committee is looking at proposed changes to the state's 1-year old abortion law that is being challenged in court.