Roe V. Wade Anniversary Raises Questions
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Coming just two days after George W. Bush's inauguration, Saturday's anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion is dominated by the hopes of one side &#151; and fears of the other &#151; that the president will try to overturn Roe v. Wade through appointments to fill expected high court vacancies.
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The first anniversary of the court decision sanctioning gay marriage in Massachusetts was marked with little fanfare Thursday, but both sides in the controversy said it was simply the calm before a renewed political and legal storm.
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Last week, when William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the United States underwent a tracheotomy to treat thyroid cancer, more questions were raised about the possibility that the next president
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The National Right to Life Committee and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) are locking horns -- not over abortion, but over whether thousands of top executive branch officials should have to disclose the names of people who lobby them.
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To dye or not to dye. That is the question in the latest feminist debate over aging and authenticy
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WASHINGTON Nov 23, 2004 - More than a quarter of the babies born in the United States last year were delivered by Caesarean section, a record high for the surgical method that is a controversial subject among both obstetricians and mothers.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Twenty years after the northern spotted owl became the prime symbol for endangered species and habitat protection, it&#39;s back in the news and steeped in controversy.
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Anti-abortion leaders are accusing one of their own, Focus on Family founder James Dobson, of misrepresenting a Supreme Court decision that upheld a ban on late-term abortions.
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Medical science and religion clashed this week over whether to switch off life-support equipment that is keeping an 84-year-old man alive in a Canadian hospital.
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Members of midwives union consider holding ballot for the first time in its 125-year history.
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LISBON, Feb 8 (IPS) - Just when those in favour of legalising abortion in  Portugal were faltering in the polls, a hair-raising campaign  against voluntary termination of pregnancy could backfire against  the anti-abortion cause, instead of winning over more supporters.
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Thirty-five years ago on Tuesday the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the Roe versus Wade case, legalizing abortion and introducing some of the world's least restrictive abortion laws.
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Ford is celebrating its 100th anniversary in Canada today amid uncertainty over the future of the automaker&#39;s Oakville assembly plant.
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Portugal holds a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to legalise abortion, an emotive issue in the overwhelmingly Catholic country where there are worries not enough people will vote to validate a decision.
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But decision sparks more big questions over fairness
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK - Thousands of abortion-rights activists marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the latest in a growing procession of protests leading up to the Republican National Convention.    Protesters were expected to gather later in the day in Central Park and at the World Trade Center site, where anti-Bush demonstrators planned to ring 2,749 bells - one for each victim of the Sept...