Roe v. Wade: 38 and Under Attack
Thirty-eight years after Roe gave America's women the right to plan for their families and control their reproductive health, this tenet of modern American rights is under assault.
Thirty-eight years after Roe gave America's women the right to plan for their families and control their reproductive health, this tenet of modern American rights is under assault.
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Abortion foes have won a round in the first test of how President Barack Obama's health care law will be applied to the politically...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents fought passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul to the bitter end, and now that it's the law, th...
Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 05.25.2011
As the battle for health care reform enters the endgame, abortion foes in and out of Congress are trying mightily to block the bill. And one small mis...
AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 05.25.2011
WEST BRANCH, Mich. — Shortly after entering Congress in 1993, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan withstood President Bill Clinton's charm offensive an...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
When it comes to how health care legislation deals with the always-contentious abortion issue, Democratic House leadership has concluded that it canno...
Ian Squires | Posted 05.25.2011
As long as Americans die because they don't have a doctor, we are not No. 1. Meanwhile, it is unconscionable for the health care debate to be contaminated by an unrelated matter.
The Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 05.25.2011
By now most people have heard the story of the frog that's put in a pot of cold water on a hot stove and doesn't notice as it is gradually boiled to d...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents in the Senate want tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, similar to the limits passed by the Hous...
Amy Siskind | Posted 05.25.2011
Is it me, or is Obama's health care bill increasingly like the movie Groundhog Day? Another day, another women's health smackdown. Women's health is under assault.
Chris Korzen | Posted 05.25.2011
Both sides of the abortion debate supported health care reform that preserved current policies for federal support. But how do we define abortion neutrality where federal precedent doesn't exist?
Cecile Richards | Posted 05.25.2011