The GOP proposal would exempt from the legal definition of abortion certain medical procedures for pregnant women.

State Rep. Josh Carlson, right, shown speaking with Rep. Rodney Lyons in the Louisiana House of Representatives, has filed legislation that would update the definition of coerced abortion in state law ...

An article, credited to the New York Times, which appeared in the Buffalo News on October 19, 2022, titled “after Roe, debate focuses on what 'abortion' means,” alleges irreconcilable confusion ...

A Louisiana lawmaker has introduced a bill to dramatically expand the definition of a coerced abortion to include any kind of intimidation or effort to pressure a pregnant woman to have an abortion.

WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. Florida’s Amendment 4 aims to ...

Defining a medical term according to medical billing codes has nothing to do with the reality or morality of the procedure of abortion (“Clarifying meaning of ‘abortion,’ ” Our Readers’ Views, Dec. 7) ...

The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of ...

Five of Florida’s six ballot measures, including the citizen-led Amendment 4 on abortion access, do not include definitions. The other four definition-free measures came from the Legislature. Many ...