Mexicans marched on Sunday against plans to legalise abortion in Mexico City, a move that has split opinion in the world's second-largest Roman Catholic country and drawn fire from the Pope. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Really interesting theory about the relationship between legalized abortion and crime. picked by muppet 9 months ago

Targeted abortion doctors said they feared for their lives. They testified they used disguises, bodyguards, wore bulletproof vests, and instructed their children to crouch in the bathtub if they heard gunfire. picked by muppet 7 days ago

An abortion can cause five years of mental anguish, anxiety, guilt and even shame, a BMC Medicine study suggests. picked by doggylives 7 months ago

Breaking news. The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench. picked by ReBoot 1 year ago

Eighty books in high school library stacks are corrupting students with tales of abortion, homosexuality and atheism. That's according to a West Palm Beach mother who has appealed to the school board to remove the books from the shelves of Dreyfoos and Royal Palm Beach high schools. [where's that Flordia category?] picked by sholom22 1 year ago

Victorian Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart has warned today that Catholic hospitals could close their maternity departments if the State Government's proposed abortion law is passed. picked by muppet 3 weeks ago

The abortion pill RU486 will be available to Victorian women within weeks. But the drug will be restricted to cases considered clinically necessary because a surgical abortion is not appropriate. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Lawmakers in South Carolina are trying to pass a law where women looking to get an abortion will have to view ultrasound images of their fetus before going ahead with the abortion. This will include women who have been the victims of rape and incest. picked by escaflowne 2 years ago

Cardinal Keith O'Brien has urged Catholics to withhold their vote from pro-abortion politicians, calling the practice an "unspeakable crime". picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An Irish teenager has won a High Court battle in Dublin to be allowed to visit Britain for an abortion. The foetus has anencephaly, a condition which means that a large part of the brain and skull is missing. Babies with anencephaly live a maximum of just three days after birth. picked by makri 1 year ago

Missouri lawmakers argue that 80,000 more Missourians would have been born without abortion and that many would now be at the right working age. Instead workers have to be solicited from across the border. picked by ybne1else 2 years ago

Britain is facing an abortion crisis because an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An “abortion ship” is planning to sail to countries where the practice is illegal and take women out to sea for terminations after the Dutch Government lifted restrictions banning it from international waters. picked by kissmenow 1 year ago

Outraged by their 19 year old daughter's pregnancy, this couple from Maine kidnapped her to bring her to New York for an abortion. She managed to escape, and her parents are now under arrest. picked by ybne1else 2 years ago

The Romaninan indie "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", about the horrors a young woman undergoes trying to get a secret abortion, beat out filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Ethan and Joel Coen. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

The women might have wanted the teen to have an abortion because her pregnancy could have exacerbated an unrelated health problem, Bohannon said. The girl is in protective custody.

But the turpentine was ok. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Finley Crampton really shouldn't be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn't take the risk. picked by maxriter 4 months ago

Here's the rundown:

Pregnant woman, set to have twins.
One twin diagnosed with Down's Syndrome.
Woman decides to abort the fetus.
Doctor aborts the WRONG FETUS!

Rome debates. picked by ImNotBlue 1 year ago

A Roman Catholic archbishop's call this week for Saint Louis University to discipline its popular basketball coach for publicly supporting abortion rights has put the Jesuit school in a bind. picked by dollyllama 9 months ago