What's behind anti-abortion frenzy?


Notre Dame's commencement begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, when the twirling universe will stop cold to witness the latest battle in America's Hundred Years War over abortion.

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MPs must oppose anti-abortion legal challenge - Alranz

NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News

The Abortion Law Reform Association (Alranz) today urged MPs to publicly support the Abortion Supervisory Committee in its court battle this week against the anti-abortion group Right to Life.

 

Veto of anti-abortion bill sustained in Kan.

Hutchinson News

TOPEKA - Anti-abortion senators failed Thursday night to override a veto of a bill to toughen the st ...

 

Obama's visit puts focus on abortion :Politicians talk about the politics behind a sensitive topic before ND's ...

South Bend Tribune

SOUTH BEND -- Owen "Butch" Morgan's office is sprinkled with brightly colored campaign signs for the Democrats he's worked to elect over the last 14 years.

 

Pro-choice demo marks 40 years of abortion rights

Hour.ca

Forty years after women gained the right to an abortion in Canada - May 14, 1969 - the battle to protect it continues. "The recent Conservative attack on abortion rights [with Bill C-484] and pay equity has mobilized women," says Mahée Lamoureux, a member of feminist collective La Riposte.

 

Obama reaches across the aisle on abortion

Salon.com

The president is trying to find common ground between pro- and anti-choice factions. But can he accomplish anything without selling out women's rights?

 

Protesters rally against abortion

The Daily Record

ELLENSBURG — Twenty-two members of Show the Truth Washington State lined up along University Way Thursday for their annual stop to “educate” the masses about abortion.

 

Abortion bills running short on time

KRIS-TV Corpus Christi

AUSTIN, Texas -- After months with little or no action, Texas lawmakers are stirring up the emotional cauldron that always brews with abortion-related bills.

 

Kan. abortion doctor asks feds to find vandals

KOAM-TV Pittsburg

Associated Press - May 8, 2009 7:24 PM ET WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas abortion provider has asked the FBI to investigate vandalism at his Wichita clinic.

 

Spain to end legal ban on abortion

Times of Malta

The Spanish government said on Thursday it wants to end a legal ban on abortion, a move which will generate controversy in the mainly Roman Catholic country despite the fact that loopholes make it relatively easy in practice to obtain a termination.

 

Abortion key issue in replacing Souter

UPI

WASHINGTON, May 3 (UPI) -- Abortion rights will occupy a prominent place in the political battle to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, say those on each side of the issue.