Tag: Abortion

One of President-elect Trump's conservative allies says that 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Sykes isn't sufficiently pro-life. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump supporters aim to remove Diane Sykes from Supreme Court short list

Ryan Lovelace · December 13, 2016 10:38 pm

Kasich, a Republican who opposes abortion, vetoed a more stringent bill also passed by the state legislature, which would have banned abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually around seven or eight weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Kasich signs 20-week abortion ban in Ohio

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 13, 2016 9:17 pm

Oklahoma's state Supreme Court unanimously struck down a law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Court strikes down Oklahoma abortion law

Robert King · December 13, 2016 7:36 pm

Rex Tillerson, President and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation makes a brief comment as his wife Renda, looks on after Tillerson was recognized by the Boy Scouts of America, Circle Ten Council during the Friends of Scouting Banquet Thursday, March 3, 2011, in Dallas. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, a former eagle scout, was the keynote speaker at the event that raised $1 million. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Washington Secrets

Tillerson faces conservative ire over gay Boy Scout, abortion support

Paul Bedard · December 13, 2016 5:15 pm

The lawsuit is on behalf of several Texas abortion providers, including Whole Women's Health, a clinic that last summer won a Supreme Court case knocking down requirements for abortion doctors to get hospital admitting privileges and for clinics to meet stricter facility standards. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas abortion clinics sue over fetal burial law

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 12, 2016 4:53 pm

Ohio legislators have sent two anti-abortion measures to Republican Gov. John Kasich this week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Ohio legislature sends Kasich two abortion bans

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 9, 2016 6:34 pm

The Ohio legislature sent a bill to Gov. John Kasich that would outlaw most abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Beltway Confidential

Getting to the heart of Ohio’s new pro-life bill

Daniel Allott · December 7, 2016 8:12 pm

"Panel Republicans have made serious allegations of criminal misconduct, including 'criminal referrals' to state or local law enforcement officials based on secret, unsourced, unverified documents and information," ranking member Rep. Jan Schakowsky and five other Democrats wrote. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dems demand access to fetal tissue documents

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 7, 2016 6:56 pm

George Will on the Pro-Life Video Banned in France

Tws Staff · December 6, 2016 9:59 am

President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards testified on Capitol Hill. Democrats charge that Republicans wasted $1.5 million on an investigation that was conducted in a partisan and improper manner, and never revealed misdoing by Planned Parenthood, human tissue companies or research institutions. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Dems: Fetal tissue panel a ‘partisan witch hunt’

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 5, 2016 8:03 pm

At the crux of the case is the Friends of Eleanor Collective and the Jerome Lejeune Foundation, who wished to run an advertisement called "Dear Future Mom" which featured smiling children with Down syndrome, shown having happy and relatively normal lives (Screen shot)

Beltway Confidential

Down syndrome children are latest victim of France’s cultural guillotine

William Upton · December 2, 2016 9:03 pm

"Many years we'll look back on this practice as a dark and horrible time," said Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., a member of the panel. (AP Photo)

Fetal tissue panel recommends prosecution for Planned Parenthood

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 1, 2016 8:50 pm