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Thai police have discovered hundreds of human fetuses dumped at a Buddhist temple's morgue in Bangkok, and suspect they came from illegal abortion clinics.

A new Spanish law allowing abortion without restrictions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy went into effect Monday but the Constitutional Court could yet intervene to suspend or change it.

Her confirmation all but assured, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan neared the end of a final grueling day of Senate questioning Wednesday, fielding GOP challenges on abortion, gays in the military and other divisive issues while sidestepping Democrats' invitations to blast conservative decisions by the court she's hoping to join.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan took a pragmatic approach to the issue of late-term abortion when working as a top lawyer in the Clinton White House, documents released Friday show.

An anti-abortion activist who murdered one of America's few late-term abortion providers was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison in a case that galvanized both sides of the bitter U.S. debate over abortion.

President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Wednesday reaffirming long-standing restrictions on federal funding of abortion....

President Barack Obama picked up support for healthcare reform on Wednesday from a prominent liberal and a group of Catholic nuns, who broke with bishops on the issue of abortion and urged passage of the overhaul.

House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Obama's health-care bill and will try to pass the sweeping legislation without the support of ardent anti-abortion Democrats.

House speaker says health reform will pass, abortion rights will neither increase nor diminish.

The evangelical group, Focus on the Family, has purchased an ad for the Super Bowl that is expected to contain an anti-abortion message.