Abortion debate

PHOENIX -- Gov. Jan Brewer makes no bones about her animosity toward Planned Parenthood. "I do not support the goals of Planned Parenthood because I believe in life,' she said. "They believe in choice,' the governor continued. "So let's just cut right ...  

If Americans were really turning against abortion rights, then they should be turning against Roe v Wade. That's just isn't happening. Nate Silver investigated the issue back in 2009 and actually found a small trend toward growing support for the Roe v ...  

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - House Republican Bob Dold is attempting to legislatively enshrine Planned Parenthood’s federal funding with an amendment introduced this month that would prohibit the government from denying Title X funds to an organization on the basis that it provides abortions. The Illinois congressman was flanked by representatives from Planned Parenthood and the Republican Majority for Choice at a...  

Planned Parenthood believes it's being targeted a second time by North Carolina legislators with another budget provision withholding money from the group to provide non-abortion services. A House budget subcommittee approved a spending plan Thursday ...  

Congress is currently considering two pro-life bills -- one addressing taxpayer-funded abortions for illegal immigrants, the other dealing with late-term abortions in Washington, DC. An amendment has been attached to a bill in Congress that would eliminate ...  

Republican Daryl Metcalfe of Butler County, the sponsor of the legislation, says funding for women’s health services would not be reduced, but reallocated. “Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize abortionists and their facilities.”  

Pennsylvania State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler ... would put health care providers that offer abortion services at the bottom of the priority list for state funding. The anti-abortion activist group Susan B. Anthony List and the Alliance ...  

The newspaper indicates Beed has one of the worst male-female gender ratios in India — 801 girls being born per 1,000 boys, according ot the 2011 census — and the numbers are attributed to female infanticide and sex-selection abortions.  

Conservative state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Mordor) today again introduced legislation to defund Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania and other organizations that provide abortions. Flanked by fellow Republican lawmakers and representatives from pro-life organizations, Metcalfe touted what he calls the "Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act" which would "prohibit Planned Parenthood and all other abortion-on-demand providers from...  

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is accusing Planned Parenthood of providing abortions as part of a plot to “eliminate and limit” the African-American population. “Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, who ...  

Pro-lifers in Maine are pleased that their state is done giving money to Planned Parenthood. With Gov. Paul LePage (R) signing into law a 2013 budget that does not include the abortion provider, Teresa McAnn-Tumidajski of the Maine Right to Life Committee ...  

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Michelle Obama, the attorney wife of pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is coming under fire for a letter she wrote defending partial-birth abortions. The 2004 letter, written to help Obama in his campaign for his U.S. Senate seat, opposes the ban on the abortion procedure. In February 2004, Michelle Obama penned a fundraising letter to help her husband Barack raise funds for his...  

Congress is currently weighing a law that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks in the District of Columbia. Willie Parker, a Washington-based obstetrician, is one doctor who has performed late-term abortions here and stands to be directly affected, should that law pass. An obstetrician for two decades, he only began performing abortions eight years ago, largely out of what he says was concern for women’s needs going unmet. Parker is...  

Law could ban 'webcam' abortionsSt. Cloud TimesThe state of Minnesota is one step closer to requiring doctors to be present in the same room as women who are taking medicine designed to cause abortions. A bill has that passed through the Senate and is in its second reading in the House is aimed at ...  

New York Daily NewsMississippi could become abortion-freeNew York Daily NewsAP The controversy surrounding abortions is nothing new in Mississippi. Here, a group of anti-abortion supporters in prayer outside Jackson Women's Health Organization, the state's only abortion clinic, in 2006. Should doctors working at abortion ...Bill dooms only Miss. abortion clinicPoliticoMississippi appears poised to close state's sole abortion clinicLos Angeles...