The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing an antiabortion-rights protester of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act during an incident at a Louisville, Ky., abortion clinic in January, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Congress enacted the FACE...
Antiabortion-rights groups in Iowa say they will work to block Nebraska physician LeRoy Carhart from opening a new clinic that will offer abortion services later in pregnancy, the Des Moines Register reports. Earlier this week, Carhart announced plans to open new abortion clinics in Council...
Because of numerous Republican victories in the midterm elections, abortion-rights advocates are "looking at the most hostile Congress since abortion was legalized in 1973," with at least 53 new antiabortion-rights members in the House and five in the Senate, columnist Katha Pollitt writes in...
"It is dismaying to hear some pro-life politicians calling for a 'truce' on social issues like abortion," the Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life and president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, writes in a Washington Times opinion piece. According to Pavone...
As the Obama administration attempts to address concerns about abortion coverage in the high-risk insurance pools created under the federal health reform law (PL 111-148), antiabortion-rights lawmakers and candidates say they will continue to use the issue to rally support for the midterm...
Wisconsin Right to Life -- the state's most influential antiabortion-rights group -- this month endorsed two Republican gubernatorial candidates, marking the first time in many years that the group has backed a candidate, the AP/Appleton Post Crescent reports. Candidates Mark Neumann and Scott...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
On Monday, two groups that support abortion rights released reports suggesting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's writings make it difficult to predict how she might rule on those issues, CQ Today reports. Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday (Stern, CQ Today, 6/21). One report, by...
"Few people have ever heard of" the Adoption Access Network, but "it's the rare phenomenon ... that feminists on both sides of the abortion debate ... can get behind," New York Times columnist Susan Dominus writes. Longtime abortion-rights advocates Corinna Lohser and Cristina Page co-founded...
As confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan approach, groups on both sides of the abortion debate have launched campaigns to influence lawmakers and the public about her positions, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Hirschfeld Davis [1], AP/Atlanta...
On Tuesday, abortion-rights opponents visited Montana polling places in an attempt to gather enough signatures to qualify a "personhood" ballot measure for the November election, the Great Falls Tribune reports. Initiative CI-102, backed by the Montana Pro-Life Coalition, would ask voters...
The Susan B. Anthony List has launched an advertising campaign against Tom Campbell, a Republican abortion-rights supporter who is seeking the party's nomination to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) in California's Senate race this fall, the Los Angeles Times reports. Marjorie Dannenfelser...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Nebraska's Abortion Bill Hasn't Got a Prayer": Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon's "Broadsheet": A bill (LB 1103) recently signed into law in Nebraska banning abortions at 20 weeks "based on the claim that fetuses start to feel...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Nebraska's Abortion Bill Hasn't Got a Prayer": Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon's "Broadsheet": A bill (LB 1103) recently signed into law in Nebraska banning abortions at 20 weeks "based on the claim that fetuses start to feel...
In the "three years since the Supreme Court's conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion, ... foes of reproductive freedom are pressing new attacks on women's rights and health," a New York Times editorial states. Utah Gov...
In the "three years since the Supreme Court's conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion, ... foes of reproductive freedom are pressing new attacks on women's rights and health," a New York Times editorial states. Utah Gov...
American Prospect senior correspondent Michelle Goldberg examines the abortion debate in the context of health reform in an opinion piece, concluding that whatever the outcome, "the pro-choice movement loses." The movement "can't rally behind the existing legislation," but "[a]t the same time...