President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but it would not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars as some abortion opponents fear. Major anti-abortion groups such as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Right to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medication-induced home abortions are safe for women who are 50 to 63 days pregnant, a new study from Sweden shows. Studies to date have only looked at home use of the procedure up to 49 days after conception, Dr. Helena Kopp Kallner of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and her colleagues note in their report. In ...

Tens of thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered Sunday in at least four Spanish cities to protest a new law that allows abortions without restrictions up to 14 weeks. Organizers' spokesman Victor Gago said one march, in which demonstrators carried banners saying "Yes to Life," blocked Madrid's central Sol square. Besides the capital, rallies were held in Barcelona, Bilbao and ...

Just when President Barack Obama is striving to unite Democratic lawmakers for one last push to pass his health care overhaul, the divisive politics of abortion threaten to tear the party apart. At issue is a Senate health care bill House Democrats are being asked ...