Senate blocks anti-abortion bill; new showdown set
Senate Democrats thwarted a Republican effort to ban late-term abortions on Tuesday as GOP leaders strained to avoid a government shutdown in eight days over the dispute — all against a tangled backdrop of presidential politics.
Senate Dems likely to block GOP bill curbing late abortions
Democrats seem certain to block Republican legislation banning most late-term abortions in a Senate showdown with plenty of political significance but little suspense.
Anti-abortion videos draw scrutiny to fetal tissue brokers
Covert videos released by an anti-abortion group have opened a window on a largely unknown corner of science: the middlemen who supply researchers with human fetal cells from elective abortions.
Report: U.S. abortion rate at lowest since 1973
The U.S. abortion rate declined to its lowest level since 1973, and the number of abortions fell by 13 percent between 2008 and 2011, according to the latest national survey of abortion providers conducted by a prominent research institute.
Abortions halted at some Texas clinics
AUSTIN, Texas — A third of the abortion clinics in Texas can no longer perform the procedure starting Friday after a federal appeals court allowed
US abortions fall 5 percent, biggest drop in a decade
U.S. abortions fell 5 percent during the Great Recession in the biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade, according to government figures released Wednesday.