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Pro-Life Groups Pitch 'Unbortions' to Women

Nick McMaster — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:11:50 CST

Anti-abortion groups—and at least one Catholic hospital—are embracing a procedure being called an "unbortion," and The Week offers a primer. It involves stopping a second-trimester abortion after it has begun, possible because the procedure takes more than one visit to complete. In the first step, doctors insert a...

Nation's Only Late-Term Abortionist: 'I Will Never Be Safe'

Harry Kimball — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:02:13 CDT

The murder of George Tiller has left the nation with only one provider of late-term abortions—and that makes Warren Hern public enemy No. 1 on the fringes of the anti-abortion camp. "I will never be safe," Hern tells Esquire in a long profile. "I will always be looking over...

Abortion 'Purity Test' Is New to Republicans

Matt Cantor — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:45:02 CDT

Abortion has become “the purity test for remaining in the GOP’s inner circle,” writes Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe : The Republican Party is shedding and shunning abortion-rights supporters it once called its own. But it wasn’t always that way—even “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater supported a woman’s right to...

Stiffed Surrogate Moms Face Tough Decision

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:26:23 CDT

Surrogate moms-to-be who have learned they've been stiffed by out-of-cash firms that arranged their pregnancies face a major decision. The only way for these women to quit "working" is to obtain abortions, notes William Saletan in Slate. He fervently hopes the women will see their pregnancies through. So what's a...

Steele Backs Off Remarks on Abortion

Harry Kimball — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:55:29 CDT

Michael Steele has again stirred up some trouble with his Republican constituency, this time by making an intricate but obtuse argument about his stance on abortion, the Washington Post reports. In an interview with GQ , the RNC chair was asked if he supported a woman’s right to choose. “I think...

At 35, Roe v. Wade Still Divides

Rob Quinn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:19:58 CST

Protesters on both sides of the abortion debate today mark the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that frames the debate. The anniversary of Roe v. Wade arrives with surveys showing US views on abortion largely unchanged over the past 15 years and with abortions at their lowest level...

US Abortions Down 25% Since 1990 High

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:56:00 CST

About 1.2 million abortions were performed in the US in 2005, a 25% drop from the practice’s 1990 heyday, new data show. About 1 in 5 pregnancies ended in abortion in '05—the most recent year with data available—compared to 1 in 3 in the 1980s, the Los...

Anti-abortion Groups Split by Late-Term Ban

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:16:04 CDT

The recent Supreme Court ruling against partial-birth abortions has ignited a battle among anti-abortion groups, the Washington Post reports. The bickering highlights a divide between groups working for a wholesale ban and those seeking limits. In newspaper ads, a religious coalition ripped the ruling as "wicked" and slammed longtime ally...

Giuliani Will Come Out As Pro-Choice

Dustin Lushing — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:30:04 CDT

Rudy Giuliani will cut the embarrassing equivocation and declare himself in favor of abortion rights in the coming days, reports the New York Times . The GOP frontrunner, who's drawn flak for trying to explain away his support for abortion in his mayoral days, will risk alienating the conservative portion of...