WICHITA, Kan. — Prosecutors on Tuesday kept their case focused on the grim details of how a Kansas abortion provider was shot dead in his church, avoiding testimony about abortion and instead homing in on the actions and arrest of the man they say carried out the attack.

WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn lower court rulings that require Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to provide transportation when pregnant jail inmates want abortions.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Under pressure from their rivals, the leading Republican presidential contenders defended their conservative credentials on abortion, gun control and tax cuts in a feisty debate Tuesday night.

A House committee voted Wednesday to stop a Tucson nurse practitioner from performing surgical abortions. The legislation, HB2269, does not name Mary Andrews, who works for Planned Parenthood Arizona. Instead, it would spell out in state law that abortions cannot be performed in this state by a nurse practitioner.

State lawmakers are only one step away from sending some new restrictions on abortion to Gov. Jan Brewer.

WASHINGTON - Taking a teenager across state lines to get an abortion without a parent's knowledge would become a crime punishable by prison under a bill that headed toward Senate passage Tuesday.

A federal judge agreed to decide by a week from Wednesday whether to allow the state to start requiring a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can terminate her pregnancy.

A suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul couple touched off an Internet frenzy Thursday with their "birth or not" website -- an online poll on asking whether the woman, who is 17 weeks pregnant, should have an abortion.

August 19, 2004

A divided state House approved changes in state laws dealing with when minors can get an abortion without parental consent - changes foes said will throw new roadblocks in the path of pregnant teens. But that may depend on how some of the words would be interpreted.

Legislation to impose the first new state restrictions on abortion in six years coasted to easy approval Wednesday in the House Committee on Health and Human Services as the Democrats, seeing they were going to be outvoted anyway, decided instead to walk out.

Nurse practitioners with special training can perform first-term abortions in Arizona, the state Board of Nursing voted Wednesday.

PIERRE, S.D. - Gov. Mike Rounds said he is inclined to sign a bill that would ban nearly all abortions in South Dakota, making it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life.

State health officials are implementing parts of a controversial abortion law even as one section is being challenged in court.

State lawmakers have broad authority to impose new restrictions on abortion and who can perform the procedure, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

State lawmakers have broad authority to impose new restrictions on abortion and who can perform the procedure, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Two years after South Dakotans rejected a nearly total ban on abortion, voters on Nov. 4 will decide another sweeping but less restrictive ballot measure that would probably send a legal challenge of Roe v. Wade to the U.S. Supreme Court.

When the immigration debate began heating up in 2003, a select number of Republicans and Democrats suggested opponents in the other party had a rather crass political motive for picking reform strategies — boosting their power at the ballot box.

December 24, 2004

LOS ANGELES - The powers behind "The West Wing" are making this campaign promise: Sunday's live debate between presidential candidates Arnold Vinick and Matt Santos will be far from politics - or television - as usual.

WASHINGTON - John Roberts, certain to win confirmation as the nation's 17th chief justice, was hailed by Republicans as the "brightest of the bright" as the Senate on Monday began its first Supreme Court confirmation debate in more than a decade.