The Texas Supreme Court on Dec. 11 overruled a district judge's order allowing a pregnant mother to obtain an abortion under an exemption to the state's abortion ban. The justices ruled the woman's case, which required a doctor to exercise "reasonable medical
A Texas judge ruled Dec. 7 in favor of a pregnant mother who sued the state to seek an exemption to its abortion ban after she argued that continuing with her pregnancy would endanger her life and future fertility.
In a lawsuit by
The U.S. Catholic bishops are united in the belief that abortion is “our preeminent priority,” their pro-life chair said after they decided to continue using that language in a guide to political life. “It is our preeminent priority,” Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
The Texas Supreme Court Nov. 28 heard arguments in a challenge to the state's abortion ban after a group of women alleged that the law forced them to continue pregnancies despite grave risks to their health.
In March, five women who said they
For abortion’s opponents, it has been a frustrating year.
When it came to the courts, the pro-life movement scored its most significant victory when the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 reversed its 1973 decision calling abortion a constitutional right.
When it has come to
Catholic school leaders in Northern Ireland have called on parents to reject a plan by the British government that they say would "impose abortion ideology" on faith-based schools in the region.
Though Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom, it has been
The number of abortions in the U.S. increased in 2021, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. national public health agency, and the agency's last report of such data with Roe v. Wade still in
The last of 10 defendants on trial for a 2020 "lock and block" invasion of a Washington abortion clinic was convicted Nov. 16.
Paula "Paulette" Harlow of Kingston, Massachusetts, was found guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of federal
The Nebraska Catholic Conference, Nebraska Right to Life and the Nebraska Family Alliance and other pro-life groups are criticizing a newly launched effort to put abortion protections on the ballot in their state in 2024.
Seeking to replicate efforts to enshrine abortion protections
The Peruvian Congress approved a law Nov. 9 that establishes that human life begins with conception, so a conceived, unborn child must have his or her rights protected from the beginning. Until then, the legislation determined that only after birth are people