Abortion ban fails in S.D. Senate panel
107013
A South Dakota bill to ban most abortions in a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade appeared dead Wednesday after a state Senate committee rejected it.
658556
NEW YORK - A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional because it does not contain an exception to protect a woman's health, something the Supreme Court said is required in laws prohibiting types of abortion.    U.S...
371820
In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.
748549
An abortion bill aimed at stopping people from helping pregnant girls skirt parental-notification laws has gained passage in both houses of Congress, but sticky political and policy disputes stand between it and President Bush's desk.
601432
The House voted narrowly to reverse a ban on contraception aid to groups overseas that offer abortions, a pillar of President Bushâs foreign aid policy.
305094
The presumptive incoming chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee denied on Thursday that he had issued a warning to President Bush not to nominate anti-abortion judges for the Supreme Court.
379134
A federal judge ruled that a ban on a type of late-term abortion violates the US Constitution.
316613
Voters will have the final say on a tough new law that bans almost all abortions in South Dakota.
470887
NEW YORK Aug. 26, 2004 - In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.
317008
The Senate narrowly rejected two proposals today that would have upset the delicate compromise embodied in a bipartisan bill to overhaul the nationâs immigration laws.
294314
The Democratic-controlled Congress passed legislation Thursday to loosen restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but the bill's supporters lacked the votes needed to override President Bush's threatened veto.
146810
A U.S.-led campaign to ban  cloning of human embryos, including for stem cell research, was  rejected by a divided United Nations on Friday as a General  Assembly committee abandoned the initiative in favor of a  nonbinding declaration against human cloning.
697229
Local abortion rights and anti-abortion activists reacted strongly to a Thursday ruling by a New York judge who declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional.
38542
An attempt to stop scientific research into human-animal "hybrid" embryos fails in the House of Lords.
575957
A federal appeals court Monday rejected Michigan's attempt to ban a procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion, ruling the law unconstitutional because it could also prohibit other abortion procedures.
688252
President George W. Bush's pick to  lead the Food and Drug Administration won support from a U.S.  Senate panel on Wednesday, but still faces opposition from two  Republican senators blocking a full vote on the nomination.
67103
An abortion ban bill introduced Wednesday in the South Dakota state House would allow exceptions for rape and incest, but only if the crimes are reported to authorities with DNA evidence.