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.

Millie Weaver apparently doesn't know that the First Amendment protects a person from being arrested for free speech, not for being kicked off social media.

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.

A new video from Campus Reform has students from Columbia University being asked if they can name the five rights protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution. Keep in mind that this is an ivy league school, which should mean that these are among the best and brightest students in the world. One is even studying Constitutional Law. The most any student got was three | Read More »

The state has no right to threaten financial institutions that do business with the NRA.

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

Florida reacted to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre by becoming the first state to require police or armed guards at all public schools. It’s a mandate many districts are struggling to meet, financially and logistically.

No, taking Alex Jones and his hate speech off of social media platforms is not a violation of his first amendment rights.

(ONE NEWS NOW) — An assistant football coach punished for praying after games is asking the nation’s highest court to hear his First Amendment case. First Liberty Institute filed a lawsuit on behalf of Joe Kennedy in 2015 after he was suspended, then fired, by the Bremerton School District for kneeling and praying after football […]

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

"Now I feel like I need to go home and just read..."

"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 Equality and Human Rights Commission in the United Kingdom has threatened legal action against the National Health Service if it doesn't allow transgender patients access to fertility treatments, the Independent reported. The EHRC, a nondepartmental public organization for human rights, issued a formal notice to the NHS calling on it to change its "outdated policies" and make fertility services available without discrimination against those with gender dysphoria. “A choice between treatment for gender dysphoria and the chance to start a family is not a real choice," EHRC chief executive Rebecca Hilsenrath told the Independent. "We have asked NHS England to reflect on the true breadth of their statutory mandate and the impact on the transgender community of these outdated policies.” Currently, independent clinical commissioning groups determine which services are needed for a specific community, then it purchases those services on behalf of the population. It is responsible for the health outcomes of the entire …

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