Abortion News

United Nations officials are urging several countries with particularly harsh abortion bans to increase legalization of the medical procedure, pointing out their current laws could be in breach of international human rights treaties.

Remember the University of California, Santa Barbara feminist studies professor who forcibly stole a graphic anti-abortion sign from two abortion protesters, then scratched and appeared to push one of the protesters , then destroyed the sign? The crime went down back in March when the professor, Mireille Miller-Young, rallied up a small gaggle of ... (more)

Women who take the pill choose partners who share a similar genetic profile causing them to lose interest in sex and become more likely to be the victim of violent assault and murder.

On his MSNBC show The Daily Rundown, Chuck Todd interviewed Stephanie Schriock of Emily's List, a narrowly tailored PAC for female pro-abortion Democrats.

Pro-life organizations held a rally and news conference outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Tempe on Thursday, calling for an immediate investigation of the facility.

A federal judge has put off arguments on the constitutionality of New Hampshire's law creating buffer zones of up to 25 feet around abortion clinics after the attorney general agreed not to enforce it.

The ACLU claims that the The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011 "relies on harmful racial stereotypes to stigmatize, shame, and discriminate against Black women and Asian American and Pacific Islander women who seek abortions."

People are going nuts after an ice cream shop decided to donate a portion of its proceeds to Planned Parenthood.

The New York Times takes us behind closed doors to show how a group of conservatives are training Republicans to talk about their support for banning abortion by offering tips like this: Keep remarks as short as possible.

The number of abortions in Texas dropped 13 percent in the last year as new abortion restrictions triggered the closure of nearly half the state's abortion clinics, according to a new study by Texas researchers and national reproductive health experts.

Tougher state regulations have led to a spate of abortion clinics shutting their doors in Texas and a 13 percent fall in the number of abortions performed in the state, according to a new study published this week.

Planned Parenthood might champion the destruction of babies in the womb , but the sometimes the abortion giant finds babies a real turn-on.

The anti-abortion activist father of a pair wanna-be reality TV stars disrupted the services of a Unitarian church Sunday while the congregation was honoring a member who had died.

Steve Fullhart anchors First News at Four and News 3 at Five weekdays, and serves as KBTX's executive producer.

A bill to limit demonstrations around Massachusetts abortion clinics passed the state's House of Representatives on Wednesday and headed to Governor Deval Patrick.

Former U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has plenty to say about abortion and pro-choice candidates, but little to say about the personhood stance of Rep. Cory Gardner, the Republican who now holds her seat in Congress.

A year ago this month, Texas approved a package of harsh restrictions that impose new requirements on abortion clinics, restrict the use of the abortion pill, and ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Newly released data, collected directly from Texas abortion providers, shows what many reproductive health leaders and advocates have anticipated in the post House Bill 2 landscape- a drop in the number of abortions.

Protesters hand out literature outside a Boston Planned Parenthood a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 35-foot buffer zone around Massachusetts abortion clinics violates free speech.

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has an interesting article in last week's American Conservative .