Abortion News

The abortion backer who attacked a pro-life teen in a profane rant captured on video yesterday is defending her actions and has no intention of apologizing.

Arkansas is trying to overturn 40 years of court precedent that abortion is legal until the point a fetus can live outside the womb, opponents of a state law that would ban the procedure 12 weeks into a pregnancy argued Thursday.

Let's just say that this isn't going to make Burger King's rainbow Whopper highlight reel in terms of public relations.

A violent encounter between a young pro-life protestor and an adult abortion activist in downtown Columbus, OH was caught on camera and published late July 9 on Youtube.

Joliet police on Thursday issued an alert urging motorists to be aware that the Pro-Life Action League will bring its anti-abortion demonstration back to the Joliet, Plainfield and Shorewood area on Friday, July 11. For the ninth year, demonstrators will stand at intersections bearing signs as part of the annual "Face the Truth" tour.

Religious rights versus women's rights. That's about as fundamental a clash as you can get in U.S. politics.

In the film "Obvious Child," Jenny Slate plays Donna Stern, a stand-up comedian who specializes in making jokes about her private parts, with the occasional foray into fart humor.

In late June, a federal judge struck down an Austin ordinance that would require unlicensed " Crisis Pregnancy Centers " religious facilities that discourage abortion to post signage indicating that they do not provide medical services.

Warsaw's mayor has fired the director of Holy Family municipal hospital in Warsaw, professor Bogdan Chazan who had refused to perform an abortion on a seriously deformed baby citing a conscience clause.

Manchester resident Marty Dowd, center, leads informational picketers outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Manchester last month.

Abortion rights advocates in North Carolina say they are in the dark about new rules required by a year-old law that they fear could effectively shut down many of the state's clinics.

States around the country enacted the fewest number of abortion restrictions this year since 2010, mirroring the recent legislative session in South Carolina when such efforts were largely stalled, according to a new study from the sexual and reproductive health rights research group Guttmacher Institute.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Reproductive rights supporters are stepping in to help fill the gap caused by the closing of North Alabama's only abortion clinic late last month.

Arizona, already a state known for strict anti-abortion measures, is still among the states imposing new restrictions in 2014.

Abortion rights advocates in North Carolina say they are in the dark about new rules required by a year-old law that they fear could effectively shut down many of the state's clinics.

The University of Chicago wants women to have complete control over their reproductive choices, unless they choose to visit a crisis pregnancy center.

"Were you lying then, or are you lying now?" So asks an outraged defense lawyer in the great courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution , when his star murder witness reverses her testimony.

A nun who prays outside a woman's health care facility that provides abortions is one of seven pro-life activists who filed a federal lawsuit against New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster and every county attorney in the state seeking to block so-called buffer zones outside facilities that perform abortions.

A group of pro-life activists has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block a new law allowing buffer zones at abortion clinics across New Hampshire.

The destruction of protections in the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution against unreasonable search and seizure are even more extensive than we learned one year ago.