Tag: abortion

So a woman would have about five months to make a decision about abortion before the child could surely feel a dismembering death.

With measles outbreaks in 14 states and health authorities imploring parents to weigh the rare risks of vaccines against the ravages of preventable disease, some Christians are raising an objection of a completely different sort: the abortion connection.

When we do not trust women' choices, the results are horrid, unjust and deadly: In the early 20th century low income women desperate to get an abortion turned to unqualified abortion providers to get the job done, or decided to take matters into their own hands.

Abortion opponents marking the huge annual March for Life in Washington on Thursday (Jan. 22) and anticipating legislative gains by a Republican-dominated Congress were thrown into disarray after GOP leaders unexpectedly withdrew an anti-abortion bill that had been seen as a done deal.

By Tracy Simmons Members of the Spokane City Council spent more than three hours Monday night listening to residents mostly air their opinions about abortion....

As some of the panelists pointed out, we cannot (and should not) try to keep values out of politics.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pope's remarks represented a departure of sorts for Francis, who has kept a relative silence on the issue as he tried to redirect the church's energies toward combating poverty and income inequality.