You don't have to be an opponent of abortion to be troubled by the procedure that pro-life groups have artfully -- and not inaccurately -- labeled as "partial-birth abortion." Intact dilation and ...

Kansas has become the first state to ban a method of abortion commonly used in the second trimester of pregnancy. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a so-called “dismemberment” law which restricts doctors ...

A federal appeals court in Richmond again declared Virginia's abortion law unconstitutional yesterday, saying it is more restrictive than the federal ban on late-term abortion that the U.S. Supreme ...

Women still have the right to choose an abortion in the United States, but not by "intact dilation and extraction," also called "partial birth abortion." Last week's US Supreme Court decision upheld a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has elicited the usual cries of protest from abortion rights advocates and, also as usual, they include an assortment ...

This is a look at some of the Supreme Court's major abortion rulings throughout the last 50 years. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, ...