abortion

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a major abortion case focusing on whether a Texas law that imposes strict regulations on abortion doctors and clinic buildings interferes with the constitutional right of a woman to end her pregnancy. Eight justices...

WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a major abortion case for the first time in nearly a decade, the regulations at issue will not involve fetuses or the mother, but rather standards for doctors and facilities where the procedure is performed.That the high...

North Dakota legislators who pushed a bill to ban abortion at about six weeks of pregnancy, and the governor who signed the bill into law, said their aim was to get the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court. In that ambition, they failed. Earlier this week, the high court, which is...

BISMARCK — The director of North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal Monday to review a struck down state law that would have banned abortion at about six weeks of pregnancy. Tammi Kromenaker, who has criticized the law as an attempt to...

BISMARCK – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a stricken-down North Dakota law that would have banned abortion if the fetus has a detectable heartbeat, which is at about six weeks of pregnancy. The high court’s ruling comes six days after justices refused to review...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- The man accused of shooting three people to death and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last month declared himself guilty and a "warrior for the babies" during an outburst in court on Wednesday. The disturbance, as prosecutors...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Planned Parenthood said on Sunday that news reports that the gunman who attacked its Colorado health clinic had uttered "no more baby parts" during his arrest showed that the suspect was motivated by an anti-abortion agenda. The remark attributed...

AUSTIN, Texas — Planned Parenthood, other women’s health providers and a group of women in need of reproductive health care sued Texas on Monday, seeking to halt its threatened cut in Medicaid funding, a move they said was more about politics than health care. The suit filed...

A Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, addressing a topic the U.S. Supreme Court is considering during its current term. Abortion providers in Wisconsin...

BISMARCK – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a state law blocked last year that would prohibit abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which would be the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation. The...

Forum News Service FARGO — Police here are recommending that prosecutors file misdemeanor charges against both a man who was dressed up as Jesus while counter-protesting outside an abortion clinic Sunday and a man accused of spitting on him. Police are recommending that Tyson...

BISMARCK – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Wednesday he will likely ask the U.S. Supreme Court next week to review an anti-abortion law that’s been blocked by lower court judges. “It’s a longshot to appeal it, but still the (state) statute says...

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats on Monday called for the chief of the U.S. anti-abortion group responsible for undercover videos slamming Planned Parenthood to testify alongside officials from the women’s health care organization in a hearing next week. The hearing, set...

Pro-life Americans throughout the country will gather today at grave sites of aborted fetuses and other memorial sites dedicated in their honor for the second annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children. A National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children event will...

NEW YORK - Angered by videos in which Planned Parenthood officials discussed compensation for providing fetal tissue from abortions, Republicans in Congress are again demanding an end to government funding for the nearly 100-year-old provider of women's health services. Away from...