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Abortion Fight Erupts Over Pregnant Girl, 10

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:39:44 CDT

An abortion rights battle is heating up in Mexico, with activists claiming officials didn't tell a 10-year-old girl raped by her stepfather that she could abort her fetus. In the girl's state of Quintana Roo, abortion is only legal in cases of rape, and only during the first 3 months...

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...

Dutch Abortion Ship Hits Rough Waters

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:55:54 CDT

A change in the law is threatening to scuttle a Dutch ship's mission to provide abortions to women throughout the world, reports the Independent . Dr. Rebecca Gomperts has delivered "abortion pills" that cause miscarriages to women in nations where abortion is illegal. She has skirted local laws by docking outside...

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...

Pro-Choice Obama Exploits Sebelius' Catholicism

Kevin Spak — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:52:00 CDT

President Obama is enacting a ghastly brace of pro-choice policies, including weakening "conscience protections" for doctors and adopting the “most radical possible option” on stem cell research, Michael Gerson writes for the Washington Post . And enlisting a Catholic—HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius—to help implement his agenda “smacks of religious...

In Free Inaugural Doughnuts, Abortion Foes See Ploy

Harry Kimball — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:51:46 CST

Krispy Kreme stores will honor Barack Obama’s inauguration and Americans’ “freedom of choice” with free doughnuts tomorrow, to the dismay of at least one anti-abortion group, the Chicago Tribune reports. “Celebration of ‘freedom of choice’ is a tacit endorsement of abortion rights on demand,” the American Life League said. The...

McCain Weighs Pro-Choice Running Mate

Dustin Lushing — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:20:00 CDT

John McCain's campaign has been pitching the idea of a pro-choice running mate to key state GOP officials around the country, reports the National Review . McCain wants to know how hostile conservative grass-roots activists would be and whether he can win their support if he selects a pro-choice VP such...