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.

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 ...

Iowa should move to define life as beginning at conception, the vice president of a conservative Iowa Christian organization told the group's conference Friday, fully banning abortion in a state where ...

Feb. 27—JUNEAU — A Republican state lawmaker has proposed a bill that could limit abortion access in Alaska by defining human life as beginning at conception. Rep. Kevin McCabe of Big Lake is ...

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 ...

No reasonable person believes that intentionally killing an innocent human being is morally acceptable. The disagreement lies in whether the unborn child qualifies as a human life at the moment an ...