Abortion News

Pro-choice demonstrators rally at the New Brunswick Legislature in Fredericton on Thursday, April 17, 2014.

Gov. Chris Christie tied his support of treatment, and not jail, for drug addicts to his stance on abortion, telling a crowd at a Jersey City prisoner re-entry conference today that if you are pro-life, "you have to be pro-life all the way."

Hundreds of people gathered in front of the New Brunswick legislature today for a pro-choice rally aimed at getting the provincial government to fund abortions at private clinics.

After a whirlwind tour of Saskatchewan that started with a prolonged detention at the Canadian border and ended in a jail cell, Peter LaBarbera, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality is back on American soil looking for cash to pay his legal bills.

West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said letters sent out to his constituents had "seriously misquoted" the Bishop of Dromore John McAreavey in regard to a "fundamental area of church moral teaching".

A federal judge has denied an El Paso abortion clinic temporary relief from a new state requirement that physicians who provide abortions obtain hospital admitting privileges.

The Republican party has a number of weaknesses when it comes to appealing to certain constituents.

The abortion issue has long been a winner for Colorado Democrats, a wedge used to appeal to women swing voters worried that Republicans might threaten their reproductive rights.

Legislation seeking to ban and criminalize abortion beyond 19 weeks of pregnancy in South Carolina has stalled in the state Senate.

The only thing that makes Tax Day worse is finding out where exactly your tax dollars are going.

Rep. Scott DesJarlais , who managed to win reelection in 2012 despite the revelation that he once pressured his mistress to get an abortion, is struggling to raise funds this year.

When Barack Obama unveiled his Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative back in 2010, it looked fairly benign.

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked North Dakota from enforcing the country's most restrictive abortion law, a ban on ending a pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks after conception.

A federal judge permanently struck down North Dakota's six-week abortion ban on Wednesday.

Could the Nevada Republican platform be a bellwether of the GOP making its big tent more welcoming to women and gays? Nevada Republican Party conventioneers on Saturday adopted a platform without opposition to abortion and gay marriage - a landmark victory for party moderates who view the party as needing a more populist position to remain ... (more)

A federal judge has overturned a North Dakota law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before many women know they're pregnant.

Governor Jan Brewer has signed a bill that allows the state health department to search abortion clinics without an administrative warrant.

Few things are as controversial as the injunction than Thou shalt not kill. While there may be little disagreement about what constitutes murder, we are likely to long remain divided over what it means.

Some righties are laughing about this on Twitter , and granted, it's a transparently desperate shiny-object attempt to change the subject from O-Care and the economy.

As the issue of abortion rights becomes a factor this election season, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman has shifted his views on a woman's right to choose and on a controversial personhood initiative.