Abortion News

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 .

Senator Marco Rubio plans to take on social and cultural issues in the latest installment of his policy speeches outlining a new conservative agenda.

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on a radical pro-abortion bill sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal and promoted by major pro-abortion advocacy groups.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on July 14 seeking an injunction against an Arizona law that prohibits sex and race-selective abortions, claiming the law intended to protect women is a form of racial discrimination.

New Hampshire says its law allowing abortion clinics to create buffer zones is different from a Massachusetts law struck down last month by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Abortion providers in Louisiana are getting hit from all sides this summer. First, Louisiana state lawmakers passed restrictive legislation that, if allowed to go into effect, may force the closures of most clinics in the state.

An image of the official proclamation welcoming Operation Save America to New Orleans was circulated among the group's members online.

Former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson says she has proof that a Texas Planned Parenthood clinic had abortion quotas - target numbers of abortions it needed to perform in order to meet its budget.

The death of actor James Garner saddened fans across the country. Born James Scott Bumgarner, the 86-year-old Rockford Files star overcame mental and physical abuse from his stepmother who would regularly beat him with whatever was handy and force him to wear dresses as a form of emasculation to become one of the most beloved stars of his day.

An administrator from the staff of Republican Gov. John Kasich has been re-hired by Ohio Right to Life as its executive director.

July 21, 2014 With less than three weeks until the Republican Primary for the 34th District, conservative State Representative candidate Rebecca Roeber has called on her liberal Republican primary opponent, longtime Jackson County politician Bob Johnson, to denounce his recent endorsement from the pro-abortion group, Planned Parenthood.

US clinics now provide escorts for patients attending women's centres to protect them from militant protesters, whose tactics now threaten to infiltrate the UK It's not yet 7 o'clock on a Saturday morning in New York and I'm confronted by a group of people standing in front of a nondescript doorway, waving four-foot high placards and shouting: ... (more)

Thank you, Hobby Lobby. The latest in not-the-Onion-Christian-Right lawsuits, nurse Sara Hellwege is suing the Tampa Family Health Centers because she believes she was discriminated against due to her religion.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - There are no people with homemade signs or priest's collars or bullhorns or pictures of bloody fetuses outside Blount Hospitality House on Madison Street today.

Tennessee in quandary amid tighter abortion regulations More women are coming to Tennessee for abortions as clinics close in Alabama.

The question continues to fester at the front gates of Planned Parenthood clinics across the county.