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 ...

It appears Bush's appointees to the Supreme Court are now doing, at least in part, the job they were sent to do. <BR><BR>In 2003, Congress passed a bill banning second and third-trimester "intact ...

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 ...

I must be a masochist for writing this, given the deluge of hate mail it will unleash. But the ban on "partial-birth abortion," which passed easily through the Senate recently, is a terrible piece of ...

You don't have to be an opponent of abortion to be troubled by the procedure that pro-life groups have artfully -- and not inaccurately -- labeled as "partial-birth abortion." Intact dilation and ...

The abortion procedure whose ban was upheld yesterday by the Supreme Court accounts for a few thousand of the roughly 1.3 million such procedures done each year in the United States, according to the ...

A federal judge in San Francisco struck down the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act yesterday, ruling that the law jeopardizes other legal forms of abortion and threatens the health of women who end their ...

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 ...