Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before birth. Related topics include women’s issues, healthcare, and religion.
In 2022, 61% of Americans said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 37% said it should be illegal. Also, 86% of Republicans, 95% of Democrats, and 93% of Independents supported abortion when a mother's life is endangered.
Generally, Democrats push for protecting abortion rights and expanding abortion access; Republicans push for tighter restrictions on abortion rights and less abortion access.
Where Pope Leo XIV Stands on Abortion, Gender Ideology
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV has a documented record on many controversial issues that could indicate where he'll try to position the Roman Catholic Church in the years to come, the New York Post reported Thursday. Pope Francis rocked the church in December 2023 when he issued formal permission to Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples, provided it's not the rite of marriage. Based on a 2012 address to bishops, Pope Leo XIV would appear to strive to bring the church back in line. In that speech, Cardinal Robert Prevost...
Thousands Gather for March for Life Rally to Protest Abortion, Euthanasia
Thousands of Canadians begin the annual March For Life in downtown Ottawa on May 8, 2025. Thousands of Canadians begin the annual March For Life in downtown Ottawa on May 8, 2025. Matthew Horwood/The Epoch Times OTTAWA—Thousands of people gathered on Parliament Hill for the 28th annual March for Life rally on May 8, calling for an end to the practices of abortion, euthanasia, and in vitro fertilization (IVF). “We didn’t come here to jostle for power. We came to raise our voices for those who have none,” Campaign Life...
'Personhood' argues fetal rights are the next frontier of the anti-abortion movement : NPR's Book of the Day
'Personhood' argues fetal rights are the next frontier of the anti-abortion movement Mary Ziegler is a law professor at UC Davis and a leading scholar on the abortion debate. In her new book Personhood, she argues that the anti-abortion movement's ultimate goal is fetal personhood, which would give fetuses and embryos the rights of people under the Constitution. Ziegler's book makes the case that the history of this movement is crucial to our understanding of where the abortion fight is headed next. In today's episode, Ziegler talks with Here &...
South Carolina Abortion Restriction May Be Void for Vagueness, But Doesn't Violate Free Exercise Clause
In the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), the South Carolina Legislature enacted a ban on abortions after nine weeks of pregnancy. The Act [criminalizes] "perform[ing] or induc[ing] an abortion on a pregnant woman with the specific intent of causing or abetting an abortion" if an embryonic or "fetal heartbeat" has been detected on an ultrasound…. The Act contains three exceptions where abortions may be performed after nine weeks of pregnancy: "As a matter of due process, a criminal statute that 'fails to give a person of...
Kelsey Grammar: Ex's Abortion Still 'Eats Away at My Soul'
Kelsey Grammer is opening up about his ex having an abortion while they were still together. In his new memoir "Karen: A Brother Remembers," the 70-year-old actor recounted the rape and murder of his younger sister and revealed that two of his past partners had abortions during their relationships. He also criticized the healthcare providers involved in those procedures. "I know that many people do not have a problem with abortion, and though I have supported it in the past, the abortion of my son eats away at my soul,"...
The anti-abortion movement readies its gameplan for Trump 2.0
The nation’s most influential anti-abortion groups have a new plan to roll back access to the procedure for millions of Americans in what they’re calling the “biggest opportunity for the pro-life movement” since toppling Roe v. Wade.
The effort, which the groups have privately named “Rolling Thunder,” is the movement’s first concerted attempt under the second Trump administration to target abortion pills, and aims to convince the FDA, Congress and courts to crack down on their use.
DOJ calls for dismissal of challenge to abortion pill dispensing requirements
The United States Department of Justice is calling for the dismissal of a case challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s changes to dispensing requirements for the abortion pill on procedural grounds nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a similar lawsuit on procedural grounds. In a reply memorandum in support of a motion to dismiss filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas’ Amarillo Division on Monday, the DOJ maintained that Missouri, Idaho and Kansas do not have standing to bring a lawsuit...
Conservatives slam DOJ defending abortion pill rules
Conservative groups, lawmakers, and activists lambasted the Trump administration’s recent decision to defend regulations from the Food and Drug Administration allowing abortion pills to be sold online and by mail. Court records showed the Department of Justice on Monday arguing that three GOP-run states, Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri, lack merit to sue the FDA over the abortion drug mifepristone and asked for the case to be dismissed, a position that aligns with the DOJ’s actions under former President Joe Biden. “Their claims have no connection to the Northern District of...
Trump administration calls for anti-abortion drug case dismissal, without defending the pill
WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump's Department of Justice urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging access to the abortion drug mifepristone, a move that aligns with the Biden administration’s defense of the drug. In a court brief filed April 5, the Trump administration did not debate the legality of the pill or defend its use in almost two-thirds of pregnancy terminations in the U.S. Rather, the Justice Department contended that the suit should be dismissed, or at least filed in a different district court, for procedural reasons. The...