Abortion News

Some of the GOP's most prominent conservatives insisted Friday that Republicans should emphasize hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage in this year's midterm elections, exposing an ideological divide within a party trying to capture the Senate and then the White House.

Everybody says something stupid and offensive at one time or another. But it takes a special kind of ideologue to turn it into a speech repeated over and over.

OXON HILL, Md. Some of the GOP's most prominent conservatives insisted Friday that Republicans should emphasize hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage in this year's midterm elections, exposing an ideological divide within a party trying to capture the Senate and then the White House.

On Wednesday night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow featured an exclusive segment about the current state of pro-life laws in Texas, following the implementation of HB2, the Texas abortion safety law that added additional safety measures for women visiting clinics.

A law passed in Texas in 2013 has closed two more clinics' doors this week, resurfacing the issue of vanishing service providers in rural areas.

One of Montana's four abortion clinics has been forced to close indefinitely as its staff attempts to recover from a recent break-in.

Michigan Rep. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, was blocked from speaking on the House floor; she said because she used the word aA AoevaginaaA A in a 2012 debate on abortion legislation.

The last abortion clinic in the vast, impoverished Rio Grande Valley closed Thursday, along with the sole remaining clinic in the 100-mile stretch between the big city of Houston and the Louisiana border, posing a tall obstacle to women seeking to end pregnancies across a wide swath of the second-largest U.S. state.

Steady streams of people filed into a Knox lecture hall last night to attend a public discussion about abortion - one of the most controversial topics of our time.

With the law requiring women to purchase a rider to their health insurance plans for abortion coverage taking effect next week, seven insurance companies have filed paperwork with the state to let it know they will provide the optional riders.

Alabama legislators passed several restrictive abortion bills this week, including one that could mean felony charge against any doctor performing such a procedure on a woman who'd been pregnant as little as six weeks.

Massachusetts lawmakers are vowing to act quickly to pass legislation outlawing the taking of photographs up the skirts of women in public.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - A 40-day prayer vigil aimed at closing Huntsville's last remaining abortion clinic kicks off Saturday morning.

A bill to create a Wisconsin license plate displaying the words "Choose Life" has been approved by the Senate transportation committee in a party-line vote.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, receiving a warm reception from a large conservative audience Thursday, said the GOP needs to change the way it shares its message with voters in order to defeat Democrats in future elections.

During the heated debate, Rep. Holmes said, "Ninety-nine percent of all of the white people in here are going to raise their hand that they are against abortion."

Ex-State Rep. Mark Miloscia, a lonely anti-abortion voice and gay marriage opponent as a Democratic legislator, is becoming a Republican and challenging state Sen. Tracey Eide in the south end 30th legislative district.

Embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, perhaps in an attempt to curry favor among Republicans who have kept their distance since the scandal over his office's closing of the George Washington Bridge heated up in January.

State Sen. Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso, celebrates with the Forth Worth Democrat after her filibuster to defeat the anti-abortion bill SB5, up for a vote on the last day of the legislative special session June 25, 2013.

A watered-down version of House Bill 4588, designed to protect unborn babies was approved Tuesday afternoon by the state senate's health and human resources committee.