Abortion News

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on July 14 seeking an injunction against an Arizona law that prohibits sex and race-selective abortions, claiming the law intended to protect women is a form of racial discrimination.

New Hampshire says its law allowing abortion clinics to create buffer zones is different from a Massachusetts law struck down last month by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Abortion providers in Louisiana are getting hit from all sides this summer. First, Louisiana state lawmakers passed restrictive legislation that, if allowed to go into effect, may force the closures of most clinics in the state.

An image of the official proclamation welcoming Operation Save America to New Orleans was circulated among the group's members online.

Former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson says she has proof that a Texas Planned Parenthood clinic had abortion quotas - target numbers of abortions it needed to perform in order to meet its budget.

The death of actor James Garner saddened fans across the country. Born James Scott Bumgarner, the 86-year-old Rockford Files star overcame mental and physical abuse from his stepmother who would regularly beat him with whatever was handy and force him to wear dresses as a form of emasculation to become one of the most beloved stars of his day.

An administrator from the staff of Republican Gov. John Kasich has been re-hired by Ohio Right to Life as its executive director.

July 21, 2014 With less than three weeks until the Republican Primary for the 34th District, conservative State Representative candidate Rebecca Roeber has called on her liberal Republican primary opponent, longtime Jackson County politician Bob Johnson, to denounce his recent endorsement from the pro-abortion group, Planned Parenthood.

US clinics now provide escorts for patients attending women's centres to protect them from militant protesters, whose tactics now threaten to infiltrate the UK It's not yet 7 o'clock on a Saturday morning in New York and I'm confronted by a group of people standing in front of a nondescript doorway, waving four-foot high placards and shouting: ... (more)

Thank you, Hobby Lobby. The latest in not-the-Onion-Christian-Right lawsuits, nurse Sara Hellwege is suing the Tampa Family Health Centers because she believes she was discriminated against due to her religion.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - There are no people with homemade signs or priest's collars or bullhorns or pictures of bloody fetuses outside Blount Hospitality House on Madison Street today.

Tennessee in quandary amid tighter abortion regulations More women are coming to Tennessee for abortions as clinics close in Alabama.

The question continues to fester at the front gates of Planned Parenthood clinics across the county.

Sara Hellwege inquired about a nurse-midwife position with the Tampa Family Health Centers in April, but the clinic allegedly cited her membership in the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a group that opposes abortion, as a reason she wasn't eligible, according to Live Action .

The owner of an Oregon ice cream shop is defending her decision to create an ice cream flavor for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's recent "misspeak" - outlandishly claiming the Hobby Lobby decision "outlawed" contraceptives - was far from the first misrepresentation about the case.

Pro-Russian forces finally agree to hand over MH17 black boxes after Moscow desperation to get them first is revealed in phone call.

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A Republican primary battle between a congressman and his longtime predecessor has deeply divided social conservatives in Wichita, a city that for years has been a flashpoint in the national fight over abortion rights.

Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's pro-choice stand is reverberating through New Brunswick, where abortion-rights activists are vowing to make the closing of the Fredericton Morgentaler clinic an election issue - and the provincial Liberal leader is offering little support.