The Texas House approves new abortion limits today, after more than 10 hours of debates and rejected amendments yesterday. A final vote could be held…
UPDATE: 3:21 A.M. EST: BREAKING from Texas Senator @TxChuy: #SB5 was timestamped at 12:03a.m. Vote was taken late. No getting around that.— (@NewsBreaker) June…
(Elkton, MD) — A 62-year-old Elkton-area woman will serve six months of home detention for illegally giving an abortion pill to a pregnant 16-year-old. Sandra Craine was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment in December. Prosecutors said Craine bought RU-486 pills from an overseas website before giving them to the girl. According to […]
NEW YORK — Planned Parenthood said Wednesday that it received more than $400,000 from 6,000 donors in the 24 hours after news broke that its affiliates would be losing grants for breast screenings from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer foundation. SEE ALSO: Is Red Bull A Drug? Komen, meanwhile, incurred heated criticism […]
WASHINGTON — Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. SEE ALSO: Why Ron Paul Got A Free Pass Dr. Steven Brigham, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was taken into custody Wednesday […]
The House returned Thursday to an abortion issue that nearly sank President Obama’s health care law last year with legislation that bars an insurance plan regulated under the new law from covering abortion if any of its customers receive federal subsidies. Providers that offer abortion coverage would have to set up identical plans without abortion coverage […]
ATLANTA- New billboards in Atlanta by an anti-abortion group, Abortion In The Hood attack Jesse Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus for betraying the Black community on the issue of abortion. The website and campaign, funded by the Restoration Project criticize Jackson for changing his position on abortion after being against it in the 1970s. […]
Nationally, Black mothers have five times as many abortions as white mothers. It’s this reality that inspired a controversial anti-abortion billboard campaign that is driving a wedge between activists in Oakland, California. Anti-abortion organization, Issues4Life, created the campaign to bring awareness to what they describe as an abortion aided genocide of Black children. Abortion rights […]
*Correction: The previous article said that CBS Outdoor Billboard Manager Jeff McCuen didn’t think the billboards were offensive. McCuen actually never made a comment on this story, and throughout the aggregation process, the writer made a mistake by attaching his name to comments that were never made by him.* A series of controversial anti-abortion billboards […]
