Abortion News

JANUARY 23: David Schuster of St. Louis, MO, holds a balloon that reads, "Pro-choice is a lie.

Seven health insurance companies in the state will be offering abortion coverage riders when a new law takes effect on Thursday.

The bill would triple Missouri's current 24-hour waiting period and put the state in line with Utah and South Dakota as the only states to mandate a 72-hour time frame.

Twenty weeks is halfway through a full-term pregnancy of 40 weeks. Exceptions to the 20-week ban would be made to prevent permanent physical damage or death of a pregnant woman, or in cases of several fetal abnormalities.

That was among the themes to emerge from a Tuesday morning SXSW Interactive panel on the "lessons learned" from last year's historic battle that culminated in the passage by Texas lawmakers of House Bill 2 , the omnibus abortion regulations bill that has, so far, led to the closure of more than a third of the state's abortion providers including ... (more)

An abortion clinic will take the City of Melbourne to court to demand it enforces laws to protect patients and staff from protesters.

The warrant served last month on a Planned Parenthood of Arizona clinic came just days before a bill removing the requirement was to be heard in the House of Representatives.

Support for good causes? Although he's most often described as a philanthropist, Warren Buffett is not a friend to all mankind.

The hardest thing about being a feminist is the long hours. It's kind of like having a full-time job on top of having a regular job, because you're constantly having to watch your back and educate yourself and others on what lawmakers/the Internet/the general voting public is doing to undo certain unalienable rights.

Although Arizona's Senate Bill 1062 ultimately did not become law, there's more where that came from.

Pro-choice advocates around the nation celebrated "National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day" Monday, an effort to offer praise and thanksgiving to doctors who provide the procedure to women across America.

New restrictions on abortion rights may be sweeping the country after Republicans won control of many state legislatures, but The Washington Post reports that Missouri may be the next battleground.

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a religious dispute over the Obamacare contraception mandate, advocates on both sides are trying to set the court straight on the science.

So at what point can we declare that there's a civil war within the Democratic Party over abortion? Because West Virginia Democrats in the state legislature just voted to ban abortion after twenty weeks.

Last week Alabama State Rep. Alvin Holmes brought race into an abortion debate in Alabama, claiming whites may think twice about abortion if a black man impregnated their daughter.

Usually anti-abortion legislation comes from Republican men in red states like Texas.

Now isn't that some great news? Reports have been rolling in from Texas - the state where 40 Days for Life began - that abortion facilities are shutting down left and right.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is "supportive" of a West Virginia bill banning abortions after 20 weeks and is considering backing a similar federal ban in the Senate.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday to further restrict the use of abortion-inducing drugs in Oklahoma, a bill that was written in direct response to a recent state Supreme Court decision.

How distasteful an idea is combining the beginning of life and its premature termination in one macabre setting? By way of an answer, consider that way-left loon Amanda Marcotte gives the idea a double thumbs-up.