Abortion

Missouri lawmakers have sent to the governor legislation requiring doctors be present for the initial dose of an abortion-inducing drug. Supporters say the requirement protects a woman's health and safety by ensuring the prescribing physician is present....

The Director of the local Pregnancy Help Center spoke about the health and social risks she felt could be issues now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved selling the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B One-Step over the counter to...

RICHMOND – Chesapeake-based minister E.W. Jackson won the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor and state Sen. Mark Obenshain won the nomination for attorney general at the state party convention Saturday. Jackson won the nomination in the...

RICHMOND – State Sen. Mark Obenshain beat out Del. Rob Bell for the Republican nomination for attorney general at the party convention Saturday. As of press time delegates were on their fourth vote to determine the GOP lieutenant governor nominee,...

Virginia Republicans last nominated an African American for statewide office in June 1988, when they picked Maurice Dawkins of Arlington County to challenge former Gov. Chuck Robb for U.S. Senate. History repeated itself Saturday as GOP activists tapped...

Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, likes to portray his relationship with the Republican-dominated Legislature as one where they work toward common goals. But Friday's conclusion of the Legislature's four-and-a-half month session magnified their differences...

AFTER COMPLETING nearly two months of duty on the Kermit Gosnell murder trial, the 12 jurors did what people often do after bonding: They took pictures. Before going their separate ways Wednesday, the seven women and five men snapped photos with one...

A legislative committee recommended against passage of three abortion-related bills Friday, a day after pro-choice advocates said the measures could limit access to the procedure. Two of the bills the Legislature's Judiciary Committee rejected...

It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of...

An Arkansas law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Friday. In a ruling from the bench, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock granted a preliminary injunction...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a new Arkansas law that bans most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright's decision is part of a lawsuit brought by the American...

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday blocked a new Arkansas law that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, one of the most restrictive abortion statutes in the nation. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright granted...