The law that bans federal funding for Medicaid coverage of most abortions is now in the spotlight some 40 years after it was passed by Congress, emerging as an election issue in the national debate over the procedure.
The Supreme Court struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics Monday in the court's biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century.
Trump's bungled response -- an awkward, extended attempt to evade the question, followed by an answer that, yes, "there has to be some form of punishment" -- prompted a backlash that managed to unite abortion rights activists and opponents.
Donald Trump is fighting to convince a skeptical Republican Party he can improve his standing among women, even as he takes back an explosive comment about abortion and attacks the credibility of a female reporter police say was illegally grabbed by the GOP front-runner's campaign manager.
Gov. Chris Christie says Donald Trump sufficiently cleared up a controversy sparked by his suggestion that women who obtain an abortion should be punished.
Women will be able to take the so-called abortion pill later in a pregnancy and with fewer doctor visits under a new federal label for the drug that undermines several state laws aimed at restricting medical abortions.