Abortion News

Andrew Glenn, Director of the Maryland Coalition

A group of Mille Lacs Lake residents sued the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on Thursday, claiming the agency has mismanaged the lake's struggling walleye population.

Sixty-seven UK doctors will not face any disciplinary action after signing off abortions for women they had never met.

The Oklahoma House has passed legislation to require the state Board of Health to establish standards for abortion providers and clinics, including standards for equipment and supplies that might be needed in a medical emergency.

Four years ago, Fran Moreland Johns realized that she better write her abortion story down so that young women could read it.

Recently, Republican state legislators have been pressing for restrictions on abortion clinics, doctors, and medications, as well as abortion bans after 18-20 weeks pregnancy.

MADISON, Wis A court hearing will be held in Madison today on a lawsuit that challenges conditions for abortions that were set by Republican state lawmakers in 2012.

The story of the woman in Utah accused of suffocating six of her babies immediately after birth is sending a shock wave of horror through the country.

When he voted for passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, little did freshman Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-Ohio, realize he would be the center of a First Amendment battle now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Harming a fetus while committing a crime - no matter how small the embryo - would carry stiffer penalties under a proposed law now awaiting Florida Gov. Rick Scott's signature.

California's ObamaCare exchange is paying Certified Enrolment Counselors, including 38 Planned Parenthood affiliates, $58 per person for enrolling people on the state exchange.

Gov. Phil Bryant on today signed a bill to ban abortion starting at the midpoint of a full-term pregnancy.

Via MFP , an eyebrow-raiser from yesterday's chat with David Axelrod at the University of Chicago.

It will ban abortion starting at 20 weeks' gestational age. That's defined as 20 weeks since the start of the woman's last menstrual period.

Although there have been dozens of deaths related to the drug around the world, the Turin incident is a first

UPDATE: The headline in this story has been updated to reflect that Latham did not take the girl for the abortion.

In a recent interview with Salon , Oklahoma state Rep. Doug Cox - a self-identified pro-life Republican with a strong voting record in support of reproductive rights - said that many of his colleagues can't seem to help themselves when it comes to passing abortion restrictions that ultimately get struck after being challenged in court.

Oklahoma lawmakers aren't deterred when harsh abortion restrictions get overturned in court for violating the bounds of Roe v.

I support letter writer Bruce Peck's recent list of reasons why we are poorer because of abortion.

Phoenix, Ariz., Apr 23, 2014 / 02:04 am .- Arizona governor Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill that ended special health inspection rules for abortion clinics, an action proponents say will help prevent dangerous conditions at abortion facilities.