WASHINGTON — After years of battling in Congress, a nationwide ban on a procedure that kills late term unborn babies with scissors is expected to be signed by the president and become federal law. The ...

Michigan is close to passing a ban on “partial-birth abortions,” which is unnecessary both because the procedure is already banned at the federal level and because the term “partial-birth abortion” is ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is unconstitutional. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis agreed ...

While October 22nd’s staff editorial on the Partial Birth Abortion Bill stated many correct things, it also helped propagate many rumors and myths that since their appearance in 1995 have been ...

When President Bush signs into law the ban on partial-birth abortions, it will be a historical milestone. The ban will be the first federal law prohibiting an abortion procedure since the landmark ...

WASHINGTON—The first federal law banning an abortion procedure since abortion was legalized nationwide in 1973 is about to become law. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are preparing to ...

Once again, Congress has voted to ban what-s called partial-birth abortion, and President Bush says he-ll sign it. The term -partial birth abortion- is not a medical one, and it appears the ban would ...

IT ISN'T EVERY day that the Supreme Court confronts a law materially identical to one it has already struck down. But that is what the justices faced last week when they heard oral arguments over the ...

WASHINGTON -- Anti-abortion forces in the House once again pushed through a ban on a specific abortion procedure despite past legislative failures, court challenges and an uncertain future in the ...