ABORTION

Identified only as “Brittany,” the woman is suing the Texans star for child support and emotional distress.

The MTV shows "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" have contributed to a 5.7 percent decline in teen births, a new study suggests.

The family of a woman being kept on life support even though she's brain dead is outraged her body is being used as a “host for a fetus.”

There’s already much speculation as to what considerations Pope Francis might weigh in naming his appointees.

Terri Lynn Land, who hopes to take over Sen. Carl Levin's vacant seat in 2014, has not yet commented on Michigan's "rape insurance" law.

Despite fierce opposition, an unpopular law restricting abortion coverage in Michigan was passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday.

A People's Congress deputy is urging free abortions for Beijing college students as many now use unregulated clinics.

A federal judge has struck down key provisions of a controversial Texas law restricting access to abortions as unconstitutional.

Despite abortion being legal in some cases, many women find trouble getting a safe procedure to terminate their pregnancy.

He said that focusing only on divisive issues like homosexuality is counterproductive and will hurt the Church in the long run.

Personhood USA, a Christian activist group, posted an anti-Planned Parenthood listicle, but BuzzFeed took it down amid a flurry of criticism.

Across South Asia, untold numbers of infant girls have been murdered by their own families throughout the centuries.

A Tampa man has pleaded guilty to charges of tampering with a consumer product and conspiracy to commit mail fraud after he tricked his girlfriend into taking an abortion pill.

Uruguay's Congress voted to pass a bill that would make it legal for citizens to grow, distribute and buy cannabis.

Newly obtained documents outline a so-called "abortion contract" between Los Angeles Clippers guard J.J. Redick and his former girlfriend, model Vanessa Lopez.

The average Pakistani woman gives birth to four children in her life.

Last Friday, Ireland passed a bill on abortion: Women can now have an abortion if their lives are in danger.

Building off a bit of yesterday's post on the lack of diversity within the newsroom, it appears cable news' diversity problem extends beyond merely the people in the newsroom, but the people who appear as guests as well. Media Matters reports that, of the 92 guests that discussed Texas' abortion bill on cable news (the one Wendy Davis filibustered), only four of them were women's health experts. Unsurprisingly, Fox News hosted none, "while CNN and MSNBC hosted two and three, respectively."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry verbally attacked State Sen. Wendy Davis for filibustering SB-5, a bill that would have outlawed abortion after 20 weeks and placed other restrictions on abortion clinics in Texas.

In spite of a campaign to outlaw abortion, the Latin American nation with the most liberal law is keeping it.

A few facts about Sen. Wendy Davis, the Texas senator who fillibustered for hours 11 without a break to defeat the abortion bill.