Really? What's more important? Because it isn't as though human trafficking and child slavery aren't real issues.

Abortion-restriction laws have swept through state legislatures since 2010. All chambers have been Republican-controlled, except in Rhode Island. Women make…

Abortion is on the decline in the United States, and it has been for a while. Since 1991, the number…

Abortion-related deaths are exponentially more common in nations with the most restrictive abortion laws. Compared to less restrictive nations, over…

When Americans were asked whether they would vote for a candidate who disagreed with them on a certain issue, that…

The year isn't over yet and, so far in 2014, state legislators have introduced close to 500 restrictions intended to…

Many of the individual provisions within the ACA are popular among majorities of Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans. And yet,…

Legal-abortion is one of the safest medical procedures. Unsafe-abortions, however, are a leading cause of maternal-mortality, and primarily prevented through…

While some form of abortion is legal in most parts of the globe, laws vary greatly on the grounds in…

Americans were asked to judge where they think other Americans stand on abortion, and then to state their own views.…

Within the past two decades, there has been a noticeable diminishing or stagnating of support for legal abortion in all…

It's interesting to note that national healthcare was the only issue of these 4 that fewer students supported in 2012…

Abortion, predictably, very much remains a red-and-blue issue. What is true across the political spectrum, however, is that the number…

Of the American women who had abortions in 2007, 40.9% hadn't previously given birth to a living infant. Only 4.5%…

In 2008, the gestation period for the majority of abortions (62.8%) was 8 weeks or fewer. Only 1.3% of abortions…

Republican and Republican leaning voters are dissatisfied with the GOP leadership in regards to the representation of their views in…

Prominent genetics scientist and public speaker Richard Dawkins made waves on Twitter with a controversial remark supporting the termination of…

The Carsey Institute polled New Hampshire residents on a range of political, social and environmental issues. According to the Institute,…

Despite the fetal tissue controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood, significant support remains for funding the organization with American tax dollars. A…

The recent controversy involving Planned Parenthood's sale of fetal tissue has certainly drawn attention to the fact that, as an…

An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that if a fetus were to die in the womb of a physically assaulted…

It's not from increased use of birth control, as teenage contraceptive use has remained constant over the last twenty years.…

Doing away with abortion unquestionably brings more births. But an undiscussed and unintended consequence is that restricting abortions also brings…

On January 22, the U.S. Congress passed a controversial bill that will permanently ban tax funding for abortion costs, including…

The pro-natalist concept that access to healthcare and a program of welfare generosity for lower-income women reduces their likelihood to…

Over the last two years, conservative lawmakers in the state of Texas cut the state’s family planning budget by two-thirds,…

Since the adoption of Roe vs. Wade, many states have passed legislation restricting abortion clinics on a state by state…

CO law already protects wanted pregnancies in the event of miscarriages caused in the commission of a crime. Yet anti-choice…

These striking misperceptions in public opinion that most Americans have may be the result of a delayed-reaction to societal shifts.…

Americans living in states that restrict abortion to within 22 weeks of pregnancy are likely to believe that abortion should…

While in 2000, roughly a third of women, aged 15-44, lived in states ranked "hostile to abortion," that proportion increased…

More than half of U.S. states have enacted laws instituting onerous requirements ostensibly for health safety called Targeted Regulation of…

Nearly three-in-four women undergoing abortions hold religious views, the majority of whom identify as Protestants. However, Catholics are more likely…

Data drawn from studies conducted by the Guttmatcher Institute.

In the U.S., the Southern states have the highest percentages of repeat teen births while the Northeastern states have the…