abortion

Life in Virginia begins at conception, not at birth. So declares a new “personhood” bill that the Republican supermajority in that state’s House of Delegates passed over the objections of angry Democrats, who called it an attack on women’s rights.

A Massachusetts court on Tuesday overturned a ruling by a judge who ordered a mentally ill woman to undergo an abortion against her wishes and be sterilized.

A major review for the UK's medical colleges has concluded that abortion does not raise the risk of a woman suffering mental health problems.

LONDON (AP) -- Abortion does not increase a woman's chance of developing mental health problems, according to a British health agency's review of dozens of studies worldwide over 20 years....

Mexico's Supreme Court upholds a law in the state of Baja California that states life begins at conception, in a decision hailed by anti-abortion campaigners.

Justin Bieber may have felt a little persecuted after the co-hosts of "The View" slammed him for talking about abortion in a Rolling Stone interview, but he has supporters, too.

One of the moms featured on MTV's hit show "16 and Pregnant" took to Facebook in advance of one of the most controversial episodes.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- In a vote of 54 to 45, the Senate defeated an amendment Tuesday evening that would have added additional restrictions on federal funding for abortions to the healthcare reform bill.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul....

UNESCO wants kids to learn the basics of sex ed at a younger age. But what the organization sees as a way to slow the spread of HIV and the rate of unwanted pregnancies, U.S. conservatives are attacking as a plot to promote masturbation and abortion