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The White House says it expects "frank" but constructive talks in President Barack Obama's meeting Friday with Pope Benedict XVI - two men who share similar views on helping the poor and pushing for Middle East peace but disagree on abortion and stem cell research.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Bryer chat before President Barack Obamaa s address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 24, 2009.

Alabama Attorney General Troy King has called a new undercover video released last week showing Planned Parenthood of Alabama apparently breaking state mandatory reporting laws for sexual abuse "extremely troubling" and requested the full recordings.

In a July 7A New York Times Magazine article A apparently scheduled to appear in its July 12 print edition , Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the Times's Emily Bazelon that "at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of." Who is this ...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's thin record on the limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a president's authority nor a reliable rubber stamp in support of it.

Scott Roeder, the anti-abortion zealot charged with killing Dr. George Tiller, has been busy.

A federal judge overreached when he sided with religious-freedom arguments to block Washington state's rules mandating the sale of "morning-after" birth control, appeals judges said Wednesday.

Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called "abortion pill." Some experts predict the percentage of such "medical abortions," which offer more privacy than surgical termination at an abortion clinic or ...

A Conservative MP is telling reporters in his Saskatchewan riding that cabinet colleague Diane Ablonczy has been relieved of the tourism portfolio for signing off on a $400,000 grant for Toronto's Gay Pride parade.

Lila Rose is a pro-life, student activist at UCLA who has dedicated her life to ending abortion, according to the web site liveaction.org. She is president of the organization.

In answering two certified questions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the Ohio State Supreme Court on July 1 declared that a state law regulating the use of mifepristone -- which is used in medication abortion -- bars physicians from prescribing it for off-label use, BNA reports.

Her 1973 supreme court case, Roe v Wade, gave every US woman the right to have an abortion.

Anti-gay pundits have targeted President Obama as lacking "black experience" and being insufficiently Christian after Obama addressed a gathering of GLBT Americans and paralleled their journey toward full legal equality with an earlier chapter in the civil rights movement that saw African Americans making the same demands and the same progress.

An anti-Lisbon campaign group has claimed Government commitments on the treaty are worthless.

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I'd like to comment on Al Heath's Soapbox in the June 24 Coloradoan. Mr. Heath is correct that murder and abortion are not the same.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology ; Public Health ; Litigation / Medical Malpractice Article Date: 30 Jun 2009 - 2:00 PDT Sixty-two percent of U.S. residents want Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed, and 55% say she is "about right" on a liberal-to-conservative scale, according to a recent ...

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney's government considered introducing a resolution in the House of Commons in 1988 that would ban the abortion of a physically or mentally malformed "unborn child." This point was missing from the final text of the resolution that was eventually debated and voted down in the Commons on July 28 of that year, and ...

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Litigation / Medical Malpractice Article Date: 03 Jul 2009 - 3:00 PDT The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a clinic operated by Planned Parenthood-Southwest Ohio Region does not have to release 10 years of child abuse reports and medical records of minors who ...

A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor has been sending mailings from his jail cell that claim such killings are justifiable.Scott Roeder is also communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks.Roeder, 51, is charged with first-degree murder ...