Abortion News

A bipartisan coalition sought to impose stricter abortion limits on insurance sold under a new health care bill Saturday, hoping to leave their imprint on legislation otherwise crafted largely by more liberal lawmakers.

Where are we on the abortion standoff? Still fighting, from all reports. Politico reports that leadership has twisted arms in the vast majority of the caucus which is pro-choice, and Stupak won't be the poison pill .

President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let federally subsidized health care plans cover abortions.

The officer has been arrested on suspicion of unlawful sex. He was suspended from duty and freed on bail.... A girl of 15 had an abortion after allegedly being groomed for sex by a police community support officer.

Nov. 6, 2009 11:34 p.m. West Allis a ' Less than two weeks before the release of her memoir "Going Rogue," former Alaska Gov.

One of Pensacola's two abortion clinics has closed after being unable to pay a $413,000 fine for having an expired lab license for 413 days.

Denver's Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput is urging his congregation to oppose federal health care legislation that funds abortions.

A Planned Parenthood facility in Bryan, Texas, has obtained a restraining order against its former director and an antiabortion-rights group in an effort to prevent them from releasing confidential information, KBTX reports.

Why join? Listen Live House Democrats have put in motion plans to hold a vote on an over $1 trillion health reform plan on Saturday, but they still have a lot of work to do to make sure there are 218 votes in favor of the bill.

Baltimore City is the test ground for legislation that is generating an outcry from people on both sides of the abortion debate.

Dr. Curtis Boyd is no stranger to controversy. In 1973, Boyd opened the Fairmount Center, which was the first abortion clinic in Texas.

JAMES OLIPHANT Reporting from Washington House Democratic leaders, while insisting they have the finish line in sight on their $1 trillion plan to overhaul the nation's healthcare system, have hit a last minute-snag on perhaps the most divisive issue in domestic politicsA-abortion. And Senate Democratic leaders' continued problems winning over ...

Writing in his November 2 column, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver is warning that all health care reform proposals, as currently worded, would fund abortions and thus merit vocal opposition.

A debate and vote are expected Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion bill that would extend coverage to 96 percent of Americans, require employers to insure their employees and bar such insurance company practices as dropping coverage for sick people.

The Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation has issued a statement regretting the a oepublic scandala caused by Sister Donna Quinna s work as a volunteer escort at an abortion clinic in Illinois.

Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the measure back on hold.

Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board members Daniel Kelber, legal counsel, Tariq Butt and Maria LaPorta meet Wednesday on the parental notification law.

A temporary injunction bars an ex-director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan from teaming with an anti-abortion group to release her work records.

With his victory, Robert McDonnell is being extolled as a new model for Republican success: a traditionally conservative candidate who won a swing state by focusing almost exclusively on jobs, transportation and other kitchen table issues.

Here is one of the loudest messages of the 2009 off-off-year elections: Conservatives in America will no longer let their opponents define them as outside of the mainstream.