WASHINGTON — After years of battling in Congress, a nationwide ban on a procedure that kills late term unborn babies with scissors is expected to be signed by the president and become federal law. The ...

Once again, Congress has voted to ban what-s called partial-birth abortion, and President Bush says he-ll sign it. The term -partial birth abortion- is not a medical one, and it appears the ban would ...

Michigan is close to passing a ban on “partial-birth abortions,” which is unnecessary both because the procedure is already banned at the federal level and because the term “partial-birth abortion” is ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is unconstitutional. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis agreed ...

WASHINGTON—The first federal law banning an abortion procedure since abortion was legalized nationwide in 1973 is about to become law. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are preparing to ...

I'm responding to the Nov. 9 letter, "Electing abortion opponents no guarantee of action." After George W. Bush was elected president he did something about his belief against abortion. He signed the ...

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IT ISN'T EVERY day that the Supreme Court confronts a law materially identical to one it has already struck down. But that is what the justices faced last week when they heard oral arguments over the ...