News on Abortion

Obama making final health care pitch to House Dems

2010-03-20T04:45:09Z

<div id="subtitle">Undecided Dems tilt Obama's way ahead of Sunday's vote on health care; GOP opposition holds</div><div><p>Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats for a final push on landmark health care legislation.</p><p>The battle tilted in Obama's ...

End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way

2010-03-19T18:15:07Z

<div><p>One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction.</p><p>In full campaign mode, his voice rising, the president all but claimed victory, declaring to a cheering audience in Virginia, "We are going to fix health ca...

Health care overhaul fight exposes Catholic rift

2010-03-19T14:45:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Health care overhaul fight exposes rift pitting Catholic bishops against nuns and hospitals</div><div><p>An unusual public split between U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, nuns and hospitals over abortion in the health care overhaul could undermine the church hierarchy's influence on the debate and give anti-abortion Democrats the political cover they need to vote for the bill.</p>...

Pelosi defends abortion curbs in health bill

2010-03-19T09:00:25Z

<div id="subtitle">Pelosi defends abortion curbs in health care bill, calls bill victory for American people</div><div><p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the health care overhaul that Congress may complete this weekend should be backed by lawmakers who want to retain current restrictions on federal financing of abortion.</p><p>The California Democrat say...

Abortion foes plan 'no' vote on health overhaul

2010-03-19T05:00:27Z

<div id="subtitle">Leader of anti-abortion House Democrats says his group will vote against health care bill</div><div><p>Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, the leader of a dozen anti-abortion Democrats, says his group remains committed to opposing the health care overhaul the House is likely to vote on ...

Colo. abortion foes say they cleared petition bar

2010-03-18T17:15:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Abortion opponents in Colorado say they have gathered enough signatures to make ballot</div><div><p>Colorado abortion opponents say they have enough signatures to put an abortion-ending proposal on the ballot this fall — potentially the first state this election year to see the question.</p><p>Abortion opponents turned in more than 46,000 signatures on Thursday, the second deadline for the ball...

A look at the health care overhaul bill

2010-03-18T15:46:59Z

<div id="subtitle">A look at the details of the health care overhaul bill</div><div><p>Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. Some of the main features of the legislation, which makes changes to the bill the Senate passed on Chris...

Technology, tradition combine in Asian 'gendercide'

2010-03-17T23:30:12Z

<div><p>While having a scan, a pregnant woman in India is not allowed to learn the gender of her unborn child. But her bill might be presented in a file coloured blue or pink -- and the meaning is clear.</p><p>The method of skirting around the law is one of many reasons why 85 million women are described as "missing" from the populations of India and China, where the abortion of female foe...

Technology, tradition combine in Asia 'gendercide'

2010-03-17T21:15:42Z

South Korean women caught in abortion limbo

2010-03-17T17:15:21Z

<div><p>Having a third child wasn't in Mrs. Kim's plans. She and her husband are already struggling to get by.</p><p>But getting an abortion, once so routine here that South Korea was known as "Abortion Republic," is no longer easy. In recent weeks, the government has begun enforcing a long-ignored ban on the procedure for the first time.</p><p>It took Mrs. Kim 10 tries to find a doctor willing to perform a...

South Korea Abortion Debate

2010-03-17T09:18:53Z

In this photo taken Friday, March 5, 2010, South Korean women hold up placards during a rally against the government crackdown on abortion in Seoul, South Korea. Getting an abortion, once so routine here that South Korea was known as "Abortion Republic," is no longer easy. In recent weeks, the government has begun enforcing a long-ignored ban on the procedure for the first time. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-jo...

SKorean women caught in abortion limbo

2010-03-17T09:32:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Pregnant SKoreans desperate amid abortion crackdown in former 'Abortion Republic'</div><div><p>Having a third child wasn't in Mrs. Kim's plans. She and her husband are already struggling to get by.</p><p>But getting an abortion, once so routine here that South Korea was known as "Abortion Republic," is no longer easy. In recent weeks, the government has begun enforcing a long-ignored ban ...

Catholic nuns urge passage of Obama's health bill

2010-03-17T07:30:36Z

<div id="subtitle">In a break with bishops, Catholic nuns say health care bill will not fund abortions</div><div><p>Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama's health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion.</p><p>Some 60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns Wednesday sent lawmakers a letter urging them to pass ...

A look at Democrats' health care overhaul

2010-03-14T11:30:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Details of the health care overhaul plan shaped by Obama and Democrats in Congress</div><div><p>President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for House votes as early as this coming week. Democrats are awaiting cost assessments from the

APTOPIX 40 Days For Life

2010-03-13T16:16:52Z

Margaret McDevitt, left, stands praying the rosary with Kelly Scart, center, and Marueen FitzGerald, across from the Hillcrest Women's Medical Center of Harrisburg on Front Street in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, March 9, 2010, as part of the 40 Days For Life Campaign. All are from Harrisburg on Front Street in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, March 9, 2010, as part of the 40 Days For Life Campaign. Both are from Lancaster, Pa. According to the 40 Days For Life website, 40 Days for Life is a focuse...

Catholic hospitals support health care bill

2010-03-13T11:45:08Z

<div><p>A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.</p><p>The chief executive of the Catholic Health Association, Carol Keehan, wrote...

US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting

2010-03-12T22:30:12Z

<div><p>A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.</p><p>Much of the 2005 meeting to take stock of what countries had done to im...

Ga. man who posted 'Elton John must die' arrested

2010-03-11T16:01:15Z

<div id="subtitle">Ga. man arrested after posting YouTube video with a sign that said 'Elton John must die'</div><div><p>A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said "Elton John must die" has been arrested for making terroristic threats.</p><p>Neal Horsley, 65, was arrest...

Lawmaker's clash with fellow Democrats nothing new

2010-03-11T14:32:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Clashing with fellow Dems nothing new for Mich. lawmaker at center of debate over health care</div><div><p>Shortly after entering Congress in 1993, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan withstood President Bill Clinton's charm offensive and voted against free-trade legislation — an early display of the inde...