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.

How the Vatican's declaration will and won't change laws across the world

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.'"

"Will Catholic [Gov. Pete Ricketts], who spends a lot of time talking about his 'pro-life values,' heed the words of Pope Francis by cancelling the experimental execution scheduled for August 14 in Nebraska?" asks Sister Helen Prejean

'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.

Another "dogma lives loudly" Know Nothing moment.

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.

Pope Francis’ decree last week that the death penalty is “inadmissible” in all cases could pose a dilemma for Roman Catholic politicians and judges in the United States.

Parliament on Monday passed a stringent legislation prescribing death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years and making the law against such sexual offences harsher.

Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor, got a Bible lesson from the Internet over the weekend after he lashed out at Pope Francis for opposing the death penalty. In a declaration last week, the Vatican said that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” On Sunday, Jeffress complained about the Catholic Church’s stance. “Pope Francis is dead wrong about capital punishment,” he …

Students have been demanding changes to the country’s transport laws after two teenagers were killed by a privately operated bus last week

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...