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Catholic bishops and laity successfully pressured pro-choice Sen. Dick Durbin to decline Cardinal Blase Cupich's planned lifetime achievement award.

Pope Leo XIV made a direct foray into U.S. politics Tuesday, offering measured support for the Chicago Archdiocese’s plan to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who supports abortion rights, with a “lifetime achievement award” for…

Activists urged constitutional protection for abortion rights ahead of Czech parliamentary elections, citing gaps in access and legal safeguards.

HHS and FDA launch review of abortion pill mifepristone after disputed safety study, sparking backlash from abortion rights advocates.

Texas Gov. Abbott signed House Bill 7 into law on Sept. 17, 2025. This bill prohibits (i) a person from manufacturing or distributing an abortion-inducing drug in Texas, or (ii) mailing, transporting, prescribing, or providing an abortion…

Abortion-rights advocates are bashing the law, saying it could turn abortion opponents, aggrieved former lovers and others into bounty hunters.

A recent study on the college choices of high school basketball players suggests a correlation with states’ positions on reproductive rights.

In state legislatures across the country, medication abortion has emerged as the central focus of the fight over abortion rights. As Democratic lawmakers in blue states enact shield laws to protect abortion medication prescribers, their…

Fans of the Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth were surprised on to see her publicly grieve over the right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk after he was shot and killed in Utah on Wednesday.

We explain the latest fight over reproductive rights.

Texas and New York are at the leading edge of an escalating states’ rights battle over the mailing of abortion pills to patients in states with bans.

A bill that would let Texas residents sue out-of-state abortion pill providers for up to $100,000 has been passed by lawmakers and sent to the governor. It’s the first legislation of its kind in any state. Supporters hail it as a tool to…

U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel on Wednesday dismissed a challenge to Minnesota abortion laws that claimed abortion infringes upon parental rights. The lawsuit, first brought forward in November 2024 by several plaintiffs, including the…

Amy Coney Barrett writes that the "complicated moral debate" around abortion differentiates it from other rights.

Supreme court justice says overturning Roe v Wade respected voters’ will, though polls show majority back abortion rights

Abortion is still the subject of many debates and unfortunately, in the U.S., the country seems to be going backwards in terms of the laws that allow women the right to access such medical procedures. Recently, people have hit back at the…

An overwhelming majority of Czechs support the right to abortion and euthanasia, according to a June poll by the Centre for Public Opinion Research of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CVVM) released on Friday. However, public opinion on the…

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Friday signed into law two measures he said were aimed at fortifying the state’s status as a safe haven for abortion rights.

James Dobson, who founded the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, died on Thursday. He was 89. Born in 1936 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Dobson…

James Dobson, who founded the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion…