DETAILS OF THE CRASH. A NEW ABORTION BILL FILED BY AN UPSTATE LAWMAKER IS GAINING NATIONAL ATTENTION. CRITICS SAY IT MAKES ABORTION AN OFFENSE PUNISHABLE BY THE DEATH PENALTY. OUR TAGGART HOUCK HAS ...

Two-Tiered Justice and the (Partial) Abolition of Trial by Jury New Study Finds That a High Percentage of Post-Abortive Women Experience Emotional Distress Britain’s Plan to Abolish Most Jury Trials ...

DENVER—Colorado voters have soundly defeated a measure that would have defined life as beginning at conception. The proposed amendment would have defined a person to include “any human being from the ...

JUNEAU — A Republican state lawmaker has proposed a bill that could limit abortion access in Alaska by defining human life as beginning at conception. Rep. Kevin McCabe of Big Lake is sponsoring a ...

HELENA, Mont. — A bill that would ask voters to vote on a constitutional amendment to define personhood as starting at conception sparked contentious debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

North Dakota didn’t set out to become the abortion debate’s new epicenter. It happened by accident, after a legislative caucus that once vetted abortion bills languished, leaving lawmakers to propose ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Conception. Pregnancy. Abortion. Abortifacient. Those words today are in a rhetorical swamp where contesting religious, medical and political views muddy understanding. And soon the U ...

Today in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that “closely held” for-profit corporations have a right to religiously object to government regulations, in this case the so ...

The Trump administration’s newly released draft plan for Health and Human Services suggests the federal health agency will now be focused on protecting unborn Americans starting as early as conception ...

North Dakota lawmakers moved Friday to outlaw abortion in the state by passing a bill defining life as starting at conception. The bill is one of a series of anti-abortion measures the ...