Abortion News

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.

Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has endorsed pro-abortion Republican Scott Brown over his pro-life rival in the primary to see who becomes the GOP's candidate for U.S. senator from New Hampshire.

A conservative Christian law group that successfully sued to block abortion clinic buffer zones in Massachusetts has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down a 25-foot buffer zone that became law in New Hampshire last month.

Pro-life protestors in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, are demanding that a Catholic hospital sever its ties with a doctor who allegedly recommended an abortion.

Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Massachusetts' 35-foot buffer zone surrounding abortion clinics, similar laws in other areas are also beginning to disappear .

The abortion industry did its best to pitch the movie Obvious Child as an "unapologetic" but "hilarious" romantic comedy about abortion, even as the director and star eschewed such a depiction .