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Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer of East Lansing charged Right to Life's petition-initiated legislative proposal is a 'blatant attack on women's health care.'

By Jason Ruiter Capital News Service The Maryland Catholic Church lost more than 100,000 members between 2000 and 2010 according to the U.S. Religion Census, but a more direct and humble approach by Pope Francis is leading many to believe he may help re-energize the faithful.

Right to Life of Michigan is flexing its muscle in presenting the state Legislature with a do-or-die choice to limit insurance coverage of abortion.

Once a pro-choice candidate for City Council, she now decries abortion as a solution, calling it "black genocide" and notes the devastating effects the procedure had on a young woman.

Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws could be changed to make it easier for women carrying babies with fatal foetal abnormalities to access a termination.

Maryland is an overwhelmingly pro-choice state. With a pro-choice governor and a mostly pro-choice legislature, citizens have managed to keep abortion-regulating legislation outside its borders.

Abortion rights advocates were at the state Capitol to ask lawmakers to sit on petition-initiated legislation, which would send the controversial measure to the ballot.

Governor Rick Snyder remains opposed to requiring women to purchase a rider on their health insurance policy in order for the plan to cover an abortion.

Of the 112 plans available to members of Congress and their staff, 103 cover elective abortion, according to a recent analysis released by New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith.

From the beginning of the Obamacare debate years ago, abortion coverage in subsidized insurance plans has been a major concern.

A report by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health cites an international treaty ratified by the U.S. in 1992 to argue that Texas law violates women's "right to life" by restricting their access to abortion.

By Dave Andrusko* LifeNews.com On Tuesday, Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon, NRLC's Director of Education, explained in thoughtful detail the latest abortion figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control-and what they mean.

The new report from the Centers for Disease Control had good numbers across the nation when it came to abortion - with abortions declining three percent in 2010 after a five percent decrease in 2009.

A national anti-abortion group is helping sell memberships in the Conservative Party of Canada in the hopes of nominating pro-life candidates for the 2015 federal election.

On Sunday, the Obama administration's self-imposed deadline for fixing Healthcare.gov passed, with seemingly decent results .

A new anti- abortion proposal could become law if "pro-life" activists have their way and the consequences could be disastrous.

From The New York Times, December 2: The American Civil Liberties Union announced on Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against the nation's Roman

Very few countries in the Americas share the United States' relatively liberal abortion laws.

This meta-study pooled the results of 36 separate academic studies on the subject.

An abortion doctor who had nearly 500 complaints filed against him in Allen County earlier this year, now faces over 600 more complaints in Lake County.