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Pope Francis on Saturday criticized the legalization of limited euthanasia in Portugal, a bill that was first introduced nearly four years ago but was only approved this week. After four

Republican-led state legislatures are increasingly road-testing restrictive abortion rules that fall just short of total bans, to see how far they can limit reproductive health care without generating political backlash.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the abortion restrictions bill on Saturday at a rally with hundreds of supporters on Bicentennial Plaza, across the street from

A few months ago, several members of my family and I took my 88-year-old mother-in-law to Switzerland to help her end her life. At Dignitas, a clinic in Zurich that

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Republican bill that prohibits abortions after 12 weeks in North Carolina passed the General Assembly on Thursday with a vote in the Senate after hours of

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota is poised to become a Midwest destination for people seeking abortions and gender-affirming health care, as states across the country increasingly restrict the procedures. Democrats in the

The chiefs of more than 400 pharmaceutical companies signed a scathing letter this week blasting federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling that the Food and Drug Administration had overstepped its authority

It’s one thing for a probable Republican presidential candidate to talk vaguely about how to “expand pro-life protections.” It would be quite another for an actual Republican governor to sign

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In the medieval ages, mothers would emerge under the cover of night, head to the church, and place their unwanted newborns in turntables embedded in the

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