COH, please

Indiana Republicans are about to force through one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country; the law would make all abortions illegal after 20 weeks.

When state Rep. Gail Riecken (D) introduced an amendment that would create exceptions for victims of rape or incest, the sponsor of the bill, Rep. Eric Turner (R), took the podium and said Riecken was trying to create a "giant loophole" — because women "could simply say they've been raped."

My home state of Indiana stands ready to enact legislation that will require any woman seeking a legal abortion to undergo "medical" counseling.

Why, all of a sudden, do you have politicians like Rep.

Rarely has a day gone by in the past few years where I haven't been told by someone that the Constitution of the United States of America is absolute, or that true freedom is defined in some fashion as the government not regulating our lives or our choices in any way, shape, or  …

A billboard in New York City that showed a picture of a black girl with the message, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb," has been taken down.

Contrary to what I'm sure you're going to hear this weekend: Reagan was not one of our most popular presidents, both during his reign & for the first decade after it (how quickly we forget!);

Another shock video campaign proven to be based on a hoax!

During episodes of Teen Mom on MTV, commercials can be seen for a "pregnancy help line," claiming to be a source for "options." However, what's really offered is a collection of scary misinformation about the morning-after pill and abortion.

MYTH: Women are using abortion as a method of birth control.

It would seem impossible to make a rape worse. But a doctor in India seems to have gone and done it anyway. He is accused of aborting a rape victim's baby without her consent.

Thanks to the anti-choice movement, poor women throughout the U.S. cannot afford safe abortions and are sometimes forced to make extremely dangerous choices.

The Catholic bishop of Phoenix on Tuesday stripped a local hospital of Catholic affiliation after it ended a woman's pregnancy to save her life.

On Thursday, the House took up the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010. The bill would ensure that child marriage is recognized as a human rights violation, and develop comprehensive strategies to prevent such marriages around the world.

You're killing your unborn baby!" That's what they yelled at me and my wife on the worst day of our lives.

A pregnant woman in south China was detained, beaten and forced to have an abortion just a month before her due date because the baby would have violated the country's one-child limit, her husband said Thursday.

While a number of Americans cite religion as the most important influence on shaping their opinion on key social issues such as same-sex marriage, abortion and the death penalty, religious attitudes play a substantially lesser role when it comes to opinions on poverty, immigratio …

The blogger crudely and cruelly mocks the circumstances behind these women's stories, even in situations where women's lives and health were in danger.

Abortion is one of the most difficult subjects to bring up these days, because it always leads to bickering and hostility from every possible angle.

Pound-for-pound, Jesus Christ is the most famous and celebrated liberal activist of all time.

You've probably heard of Playboy, but have you heard of the Playboy Foundation? It's the arm of Hugh Hefner's Playboy enterprise that has worked on behalf of women's reproductive rights for nearly half a century. Surprised?

The abortion debate has always been a fiery one. Both sides see it as a question of morality; one side believes that abortion is murder, while the other side feels that it is wrong to legislate what a woman does with her own body.

Despite what some conservatives say, it's not because they're having abortions.

The Nevada Senate candidate says abortion is always wrong because there is a divine purpose to all pregnanciesSharron Angle may be giving the press the silent treatment now, but she hasn't always been so tight-lipped.

Who knew that anti-choice activists were actually trying to increase the number of second-trimester abortions? Because that's precisely what they've done with their ill-advised, ongoing and ineffective attempts to restrict women's access to safe, legal healthcare.

Last night (Monday), something monumental happened, something that has never happened before: An abortion provider ran a commercial on national television in Britain. The ad's content entirely belies the fact that it is the first of its kind, though.

In the end, Rep. Bart Stupak wasn't Connie Saltonstall's most formidable political opponent -- it was the Democratic Party.

Yesterday, lawmakers in Kansas proposed a new way to stigmatize abortion and place it out of reach of even more lower income women: taxing it. David Klepper of the Kansas Star reports that State Sen. Mary Pilcher (R) introduced the measure as an alternative revenue raiser:

The Oklahoma law is in some ways extreme, but it's not unique. All over the country, states are racing to pass ever more stringent restrictions on abortion.

perhaps the sickest thing I have read in a long time.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry vetoed two abortion bills Friday that he said are an unconstitutional attempt by the Legislature to insert government into the private lives and decisions of citizens.

3000s BCE – The Royal Archives of China hold the earliest written record of an abortion technique.

Today, in a blatant bid to shut down late-term provider Dr. Leroy Carhart, the Nebraska Legislature overwhelmingly passed a virtual ban on all abortions beyond 20 weeks. The so-called "Pain Capable Unborn Child Act," LB 1103 does not only affect women and families from Nebraska.