While Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the 2003 Congressional act banning partial birth abortion certainly highlights a deep division among the American public, there seems to be no ...

Thanks to C-SPAN, a vital public service, I was able to see and hear on Nov. 8 the two hours of oral arguments at the Supreme Court on one of the most persistently passionate controversies in the ...

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(Reuters) - The battle over abortion was expected to shift to measures focusing on the fetus in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a Texas law enacted in the name of maternal ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A sharply divided federal appeals court upheld Virginia’s ban on a type of late-term abortion Wednesday, ruling that the statute does not unduly burden a woman’s right to terminate a ...

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The Senate is expected to pass the final version of a bill that would ban a medical procedure known as intact dilation and extraction, used in late-term abortions. Supporters of the bill refer to the ...

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortions is unconstitutional and imposes an undue burden on a woman’s right to an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court had ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has elicited the usual cries of protest from abortion rights advocates and, also as usual, they include an assortment ...

A federal appeals court in Richmond again declared Virginia's abortion law unconstitutional yesterday, saying it is more restrictive than the federal ban on late-term abortion that the U.S. Supreme ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Recently, I read a letter to the editor with the heading, "Opposition to the partial birth ...

Amen to Missouri 60th District State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed’s “Pro-choice, but not pro-abortion” commentary. The differing views in Islam as to when the Ruh, or soul, is given to the fetus – from 40 ...