BOSTON (AP) - Eleanor McCullen clutches a baby's hat knit in pink and blue as she patrols a yellow semicircle painted on the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood health clinic on a frigid December morning with snow in the forecast ( Read more... )

Although “pregnancy exclusion” laws have been on the books for more than two decades, the case of the now 19-week pregnant Marlise Munoz in Texas is bringing attention to the laws in more than 30 states that explicitly establish a separate and unequal status for women. These laws exclude pregnant women from the right given to other people to direct ( Read more... )

FORT WORTH -- Erick Munoz sat quietly as he thumbed through several photos of his family ( Read more... )

PETA is no longer just concerned for the ethical treatment and wellbeing of animals, they now also worried about your unborn’s son’s man parts. With the intention of saving two birds with one stone, the animal rights advocacy group recently wrote an open letter to organizers of the National Buffalo Wing Festival urging them to “keep pregnant women ( Read more... )

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed a new state budget, keeping controversial abortion provisions.

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Kasich vetoed 22 line-item measures. But he did not veto a controversial abortion provision that would now force women to undergo an ultrasound before having the procedure. The new rule blocks abortion clinics from transferring ( Read more... )

A contentious bill that would require health teachers to inform seventh-grade students that abortion-along with smoking, drinking, drug use, and lack of prenatal care-can affect carrying a pregnancy to full term, passed a first reading in the North Carolina house Wednesday. Although the abortion claim has no basis in medical fact, 73 state senators ( Read more... )

The state's manslaughter laws weren't supposed to apply to women who lose pregnancies. Prosecutors don't seem to care.On March 14, 2009, 31 weeks into her pregnancy, Nina Buckhalter gave birth to a stillborn baby girl. She named the child Hayley Jade. Two months later, a grand jury in Lamar County, Mississippi, indicted Buckhalter for manslaughter ( Read more... )

Parents would have to give their teenagers permission before they could receive birth control or be treated for sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse or mental illness, under a bill approved in a House committee on Tuesday ( Read more... )

As hundreds of thousands of people braved sub-freezing temperatures in Washington, D.C., on Friday to join the anti-abortion protest March for Life, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took the opportunity to reiterate his commitment to banning abortion in America for good.

( Fuckery this a-way )