DETAILS OF THE CRASH. A NEW ABORTION BILL FILED BY AN UPSTATE LAWMAKER IS GAINING NATIONAL ATTENTION. CRITICS SAY IT MAKES ABORTION AN OFFENSE PUNISHABLE BY THE DEATH PENALTY. OUR TAGGART HOUCK HAS ...

HELENA, Mont. — A bill that would ask voters to vote on a constitutional amendment to define personhood as starting at conception sparked contentious debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

North Dakota lawmakers moved Friday to outlaw abortion in the state by passing a bill defining life as starting at conception. The bill is one of a series of anti-abortion measures the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has published a draft strategic plan for 2018-2022 that includes some, shall we say, controversial language. See if you can spot it: Mission Statement The ...

Earlier this month voters in two U.S. States, Colorado and North Dakota, considered new laws that would bolster the legal rights of a fetus before birth. Neither of these ballot initiatives passed, ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Conception. Pregnancy. Abortion. Abortifacient. Those words today are in a rhetorical swamp where contesting religious, medical and political views muddy understanding. And soon the U ...

DENVER—Colorado voters have soundly defeated a measure that would have defined life as beginning at conception. The proposed amendment would have defined a person to include “any human being from the ...