In a faceless building by the freeway, George Tiller performed thousands of abortions a year. Some of his patients were well advanced in pregnancy -- seven, eight, even nine months along. And so his clinic became a battleground. Fewer than 1% ...Read More
Washington -- The fight over federal funding for abortion moved to the Senate on Thursday as opponents targeted provisions that are not as restrictive as one written by a Michigan lawmaker into the version passed by the House.
Provisions that don't ...Read More
BEIJING — It had all the elaborate trappings of a state visit: a banquet-style dinner of cube steak and roast grouper, a military ceremony with rows of soldiers in dress uniform and even a whirlwind tour of Beijing's Forbidden City.
Yet ...Read More
Restrictions on abortion coverage approved in the House version of the health-care bill likely will affect the affordability of the procedure for only a small minority of women.
Although the bill has stirred passions on both sides of the abortion-rights debate ...Read More
In the latest skirmish in his war with TLC, Jon Gosselin has filed a $5million claim against the network, saying its representatives damaged his reputation and career by preventing him from working with other media outlets.
In the suit, the reality ...Read More
NEW YORK -Millions of American women will face tough choices about abortion coverage if restrictions in the House health care bill become law, both sides in the abortion debate agree. Divisions over abortion are a major obstacle in President Barack Obama's ...Read More
The Hill's Youngman makes the point that with Obama in Asia, health reform is losing its best advocate at a critical time. USA Today examines the abortion debate in the health-care bill. "How congressional leaders resolve the issue as the health ...Read More
WASHINGTON — A ban on abortion coverage in the health care legislation passed by the House of Representatives is being interpreted in different ways by each side of the abortion debate.
Abortion foes such as the National Right to Life Committee ...Read More
The House-passed health bill bars insurers from selling policies that cover abortion to anyone who gets a federal subsidy. But it does allow insurers to offer optional abortion coverage that consumers could purchase with their own money. Based on some ...Read More
A regulation proposed by Montgomery County officials Tuesday would require pregnancy centers run by abortion opponents to give women a disclaimer so they don't mistake the centers for medical clinics and so they understand the source of the information given ...Read More
In a sign that the abortion dispute that nearly derailed the House health care bill will play a critical role in the Senate, a key Democratic senator said Tuesday that he won't vote for an overhaul if the bill does ...Read More
KIRKUK, Iraq -- Arab and Kurdish military commanders here are making efforts at cooperation despite their bitter political differences -- a surprising development that offers some hope that one of Iraq's most difficult ethnic divides may be narrowing.
Kurdish and Arab ...Read More
SEATTLE—U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that while she is against anti-abortion language in the House version of the health care bill, the amendment was necessary for the bill to pass. Pelosi spoke during a visit Monday to Seattle's Swedish Medical ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said ...Read More
The House's 11th-hour change to its health bill removes abortion coverage from millions of insurance policies that consumers would get under the legislation, including from private insurers. Anyone who receives a new government tax credit to buy health insurance couldn't enroll ...Read More
Updated After months of work by Congressional Democrats on major health care legislation, the floor debate on the bill was at risk of being overshadowed on Saturday by a fierce internal dispute among Democrats over the issue of insurance coverage ...Read More
* Stern says developing countries' inaction "not helpful" * Progress "too slow" on UN climate negotiating track * Republicans continue boycott of Senate climate hearing WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The top U.S. diplomat onclimate change took aim at developing countries on Wednesday,saying ...Read More
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Grim news hit this university town in late October just two days before a PTA forum on teenage stress: A fourth Palo Alto teen had died after stepping in front of a commuter train in less than six ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) - Georgia Rep. John Lewis and the white man who attacked him during a civil rights protest in 1961 have been chosen to receive the Common Ground award. Lewis, who is black, and Elwin Wilson will receive the award ...Read More
Georgia Rep. John Lewis and the white man who attacked him during a civil rights protest in 1961 have been chosen to receive the Common Ground award. Lewis, who is black, and Elwin Wilson will receive the award Thursday at the ...Read More
WASHINGTON—Georgia Rep. John Lewis and the white man who attacked him during a civil rights protest in 1961 have been chosen to receive the Common Ground award. Lewis, who is black, and Elwin Wilson will receive the award Thursday at the ...Read More
