House takes up far-reaching anti-abortion bill

Jim Abrams, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans on Tuesday make their most concerted effort of the year to change federal abortion law with legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks...

Philly women's clinic doctor back in court for drug plea

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia abortion provider already serving a life term in the deaths of three babies is due in federal court Wednesday to plead guilty to drug charges...

Gosnell wife: I'm sorry for trusting Philly women's clinic doctor

Mary Claire Dale, Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The wife of a rogue abortion doctor told a judge Wednesday that her husband deserves his life sentence for killing babies born alive, but complained that she and her children are left to deal with the public scorn...

Michele Bachmann's most controversial racial quotes

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - In honor of this moment theGrio has compiled some of the Minnesota representative's most provocative remarks on race, politics and the president...

Sentencing put off for Philly women's clinic workers in baby deaths

Mary Claire Dale, Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Sentencing was postponed Wednesday for two women who pleaded guilty for their work at a corrupt, grimy Philadelphia abortion clinic whose owner was convicted of killing babies born alive...

GOP nominee's anti-gay views stir controversy

David A. Love

OPINION - Virginia Republicans have selected a dyed-in-the-wool, black conservative minister and activist as their nominee for lieutenant governor. And he has drawn particular criticism for his homophobic views...

Black anti-abortion activists see 'houses of horror' everywhere

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

The Black Pro-Life Coalition plans to continue spreading the message that abortions are not "safe or rare," as the mainstream depicts them.

'House of horrors' doc Gosnell lived in squalor

Vince Lattaznio and David Chang, NBC Philadelphia

NBC Philadelphia - For nearly three years, Philadelphia Police crime scene investigator John Taggart has remained silent about what he saw after stepping inside Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s two homes and West Philadelphia clinic...

Gosnell's wife, former staff get sentencing date

NBC Philadelphia

NBC Philadelphia - The wife of former Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell and some of his staff will finally learn how long they’ll spend behind bars for their role in the 'House of Horrors' later this month...

Gosnell guilty of first-degree murder

Vince Lattaznio, NBC Philadelphia

NBC Philadelphia - Former Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has been found guilty on three of four counts of first-degree murder involving the deaths of four babies.