By Mark Stodghill
Duluth News Tribune

DULUTH, Minn. _ A Superior, Wis., woman was arraigned in St. Louis County District Court on Wednesday after being accused of holding a knife to an anti-abortion demonstrator’s neck outside of Duluth’s Building for Women on…

BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press Writer

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Seemingly contradicting his own public statements, an attorney for the man accused of gunning down a Kansas abortion provider has argued in court documents that his client has an “absolute right” to…

By Heidi Przybyla
Bloomberg

The percentage of Americans who support abortion rights has slipped since last year and opinion on the issue is now evenly divided, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

That’s…

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
New York Times

For most of the last two decades, a clear majority of Americans has supported the right to abortion. A new poll, though, suggests that support for abortion appears to have declined, with the public almost evenly…

BY DAVID BARSTOW
New York Times

WICHITA, Kan. — It did not take long for anti-abortion leaders to realize that George R. Tiller was more formidable than other doctors they had tried to shut down.

Shrewd and resourceful, Tiller made himself the nation’s…

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers opposed to federal funding for abortions said Tuesday the House leadership’s health care bill contains a “hidden mandate” that would allow taxpayer dollars to be used to end pregnancies.

It’s the latest controversy…

BY HILLARY SORIN
Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — Despite the interruptions of a handful of abortion-rights foes, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court have almost completely ignored the hot-button social issue.

Only Democratic Sens.…

BY LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The plaintiff in the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade, who became an abortion protester in recent years, was among four demonstrators arrested Monday for disrupting Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination hearing.

Norma McCorvey, 61, of…