Abortion News

WASHINGTON D.C., May 10 .- New footage by an undercover investigative group shows a prominent late-term abortionist joking about the abortion procedure and telling women not to seek emergency care if something were to go wrong.

Calgary Centre-North Conservative MP Michelle Rempel's image is on postcards featuring photos of aborted fetuses and they're being distributed in her riding.

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., has introduced a federal bill to ban most abortions after 20 weeks' gestation - six weeks into the second trimester.

Earlier this week, in a case brought by the ACLU, the ACLU of Arizona, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit struck down an extreme Arizona law that bans abortion care starting at 20 weeks.

E.W. Jackson, Virginia's new Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, said he has nothing to apologize for regarding his startling past comments about abortion, race and homosexuality.

Arizona's abortion law is unconstitutional, according to a federal appeals court.

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

Abortion opponents, stung in December when Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation that would have required those buying health insurance to purchase a separate rider to cover abortions, have a new tactic - one that would bypass Snyder's pen and statewide ballots.

Two insurance companies who filed to compete in Washington state's health care exchange initially proposed not to provide abortion coverage, officials said Wednesday.

Guilty as charged. That was a Philadelphia jury's verdict against abortionist Kermit Gosnell for multiple murders of babies in his Pennsylvania abortion facility.

During "America Live" on Wednesday, Fox News host Megyn Kelly got into an explosive debate with convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's attorney Jack McMahon.

Babies aren't the only victims of abortion; women are too. While last week all three networks begrudgingly covered babies slaughtered in Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia abortion clinic after failed abortions, they continued to censor other stories about the dangers of abortion to women.

After more than a month of delays, El Salvador's Supreme Court has announced that it will decide whether or not a critically ill woman may receive a lifesaving abortion within the next two weeks.

A prominent Nebraska abortion clinic is facing a new legal challenge from state officials who want to revoke the license of the clinic's only nurse because of allegations of questionable care.

Asks the conservative Republican commentator in D.C. : "The left, so called 'pro-choice' activists, have an interesting concept of a culture of responsibility.

SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. - They hesitated at first, but then they came from all over the church: young women in black shuffling out of the pews and down the side aisles to the altar, some of them sobbing.

When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs... When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to ... (more)

A state elections board has approved for circulation a petition drive that seeks to ban abortion coverage as a part of basic insurance policies.

Councilman Eric Garcetti, who jammed with pop star Moby and fashioned himself as a voice for a new generation of city leaders, has opened a growing lead in the race for Los Angeles mayor with the pool of uncounted... When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside ... (more)

Michigan's election board is expected to consider a petition form for a proposal that would prohibit Michigan health insurance plans for covering elective abortions unless individuals or businesses buy a supplemental policy.