THIS fall, President Bush will sign into law the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the first federal prohibition of an abortion procedure in American history. Pro-life activists will call it the ...

WASHINGTON — After years of battling in Congress, a nationwide ban on a procedure that kills late term unborn babies with scissors is expected to be signed by the president and become federal law. The ...

WASHINGTON — Legal efforts to further restrict access to abortion will depend, in the short term, on whether Justice Anthony Kennedy is willing to go along. The majority opinion he wrote upholding the ...

When the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act came up on the House floor on April 5, 2000, it had significant bipartisan support. Sixteen Democrats cosponsored the bill and 77 voted for it. As explained in ...

Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Siding ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — A third federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is unconstitutional, saying it fails to include an exception when a woman's health is in danger. U.S.

On NRO today, I explain in “Back to the States” why, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling last month on the constitutionality of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, states ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court set the stage yesterday for a major ruling on abortion by agreeing to decide whether Congress can outlaw so-called “partial birth” abortions during the mid-term of a ...