Abortion

Prosecutors are seeking a harsher sentence.

Being able to control if and when a woman becomes a mother is a basic human right.

The district attorney’s office is waiting for a coroner’s report before a decision is made.

“This is an attempt to take away women’s basic rights. Period.”

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration in the case of a 17-year-old immigrant's right to an abortion, but the American Civil Liberties Union does not see the ruling as a total loss.

Ireland's abortion laws were some of the strictest in the world. A huge majority just voted to change that.

Irish voters supported repealing some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the European Union about 68 to 32, according to exit polls.

“We are all so touched, and proud to be Irish," one of the founders of the crowdfunding group Abroad for Yes told Newsweek.

There's little President Donald Trump could do to lose the backing of his pro-life supporters.

Irish citizens could repeal the anti-abortion eighth amendment of the constitution on May 25.

The president recently announced a plan to block block abortion providers from receiving federal funds for family planning.

"Trump has never been great at keeping track of women he’s hurt," Samantha Bee said.

Irish Bishop of Ossary Dermot Farrell called preserving his country’s abortion laws “the most important social and justice issue of our time.”

On the same day GOP Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa signed the country’s most restrictive abortion bill into law, outnumbered Democrats in South Carolina successfully filibustered a very similar proposal.

"Their intention is to shame women," Tennessee Planned Parenthood wrote.

In a stunning show of unity, the U.S. and the African group joined forces to reject the outcome document.

Ivanka Trump only said, “Well, you have to understand, my father is pro-life,” Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards recounted.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 600,000 abortions were performed in the U.S. in 2014—with Planned Parenthood responsible for more than a third.

The new law, signed yesterday, makes it a crime for doctors at Kentucky’s last remaining abortion clinic to perform a safe and medically proven abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation, or “D&E.”

A journal that published a new study on the issue has ties to an anti-abortion organization.

Bob Nonini suggested there should be a penalty if the procedure was criminalized.

Mississippi, the state with the highest infant mortality rate and worst overall ranking in the nation for children and infant care, according to a recent report, is expected to adopt the country's strictest abortion laws on Monday. 

Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín had spent 15 years in a Salvadoran prison after having a stillbirth.

Indiana has passed restrictive abortion laws before, some of which languish in court.

The Senate should pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

"Our laws should reflect the best scientific understanding of the world.”

"We're surrounded by states that oppose abortion access."

An abortion storyline went horribly awry in Season 4.

"Many seem to feel that founders like Madison and Hamilton may be turning over in their graves when they see how Washington operates today."

Under the new law, doctors who perform abortions on a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome could face 18 months in prison.