Documents from the FDA and General Services Administration confirmed that the federal agency signed a contract last month to acquire human tissue from aborted fetuses.

Lawmakers must understand that if Argentina wants to advance on the world stage, the country needs to guarantee reproductive rights.

Chris Hayes speaks with Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, about the legal history of abortion rights.

Even abortion opponents must recognize the folly of criminalizing the procedure.

More than 100 members of Congress are asking the federal government to issue new regulations ensuring greater transparency in health insurance plans that include abortion.

For the last 45 years since Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion has been safe and legal; generations of women have grown up with the assumption that a legal abortion was possible. But the U.S. Supreme Court is about to change the law on abortion with Anthony Kennedy being replaced, likely by Brett Kavanaugh.

Argentina's Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a bill that would legalize elective abortion in the Catholic country, homeland of Pope Francis.

It could be the start of monumental change

"I eagerly await the new, forceful, and reversed positions on the death penalty from all the Catholic politicians who regularly explain their anti-abortion stance as 'the teaching of my church.'"

'It is not the FDA’s job to bypass their own conclusion that a drug needs a stringent protocol that is incompatible with telemedicine. It is the FDA’s job to protect patient safety.'

Plus: Testing telemedicine abortion and 3D printed guns.

Several states have threatened to sue the federal Department of Health and Human Services over a new proposed rule designed to ensure that federal funds do not subsidize abortion. It’s a contentious public policy issue that lots of people like to talk about, but few of them seem to understand the bizarre, convoluted legal history […]

Ireland voted May 26 to legalize abortion by repealing the Eight Amendment.

Abortion support is high in Argentina, even among Catholics. That puts the church, which opposes an abortion bill up for vote on August 8, in the awkward position of fighting a law its members demand.

Ghoulish.

Argentine writer Claudia Pineiro reflects on what's at the heart of the abortion debate

One witness in favor of decriminalizing abortions had to be placed in a witness protection program.

Oregonian/OregonLive guest opinion

The abortion debate once again has swept the country, as the battle over Kavanaugh’s confirmation expands from Capitol Hill to state capitals.

Proposed abortion amendment represents an assault on human rights.

As many as 148 people on board the Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight escaped unhurt after the aircraft went off the runway following an aborted take off from there on August 3, the airline had said.

Tasmanian women will be to access surgical abortions without travelling to the mainland, with a low-cost pr...

A low-cost private surgical abortion provider is due to begin offering the procedure in Tasmania later this...

Pro-life groups in Chile are criticizing efforts to legalize abortion for any reason up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.

(THE CONVERSATION) – For people who care about abortion rights, these are worrying times. Of course, pro-choice advocates began losing sleep the minute Donald Trump was elected. During the 2016 presidential election, Trump claimed that Roe v. Wade – the 1973 landmark decision establishing that women have a constitutional right to access abortion – would […]

Whether or not Roe goes, the Supreme Court is likely to shift far to the right on reproductive rights.

Angela Williamson was sacked for her tweets on abortion. And the Tasmanian health minister is denying he revealed her termination.

Argentina’s Senate is expected to vote on a bill that, if approved, would allow women to end a pregnancy in the first 14 weeks. Both opponents and supporters of the bill believe the outcome of the vote, which is expected to be tight, will have an impact in other Latin American countries.

Shortly before next week’s vote on the abortion bill in the Argentine National Senate, the Tucumán provincial legislature declared the province to be pro-life.

Grace Carr A NYT Magazine contributing author wondered in 2011 why terminating half a twin pregnancy seems more “controversial” than reducing triplets to twins or aborting a single baby Previously doctors almost exclusively performed “reductions” on women who were having at least three or four babies to protect the health of the mother and babies Multiple