Abortion

Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director Sean Spicer on Monday called controversial comments by Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) about rape “reprehensible” and “biologically stupid.”

Akin told conservative talk radio host Mike Huckabee that no one has called him and asked him to drop out.

Democrats moved to tie Akin to Republicans, who scrambled to distance themselves from the GOP Senate nominee

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), locked in a contentious battle with Democrat Elizabeth Warren to keep his Senate seat, is the latest Republican to denounce Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) comments on rape and pregnancy, indicating this is an issue that could dog the Republican nominee for Missouri's Senate seat.

Months after a controversial decision involving Planned Parenthood, founder Nancy Brinker is stepping down

Perry says Texas won't participate in the Medicaid expansion, but his plan to defund Planned Parenthood relies on expanded Mediciad.

"I don't remember anyone as extreme as Romney," says a female voter in the ad.

Officials with Planned Parenthood welcomed President Obama in Orlando Thursday as he visited for a campaign event, underscoring the group's support for his reelection.

The two women, Jenna Cawley Tosh and Nancy Wolf, were part of a group that greeted Obama on the tarmac as he stepped off Air Force One.

Obama "spent time talking with each" before moving on to work a rope line, according to a White House pool report. Tosh and Wolf are President/CEO and Board Chairwoman of Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando, respectively. 

The bill would have criminalized abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) filed an amendment to pending cybersecurity legislation that would outlaw some abortions in the District of Columbia.

The measure matched a bill from Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) that the House considered Tuesday. Both efforts would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy in D.C. except when the mother's life is threatened, and imprison or fine doctors who disobey.

Lee's amendment comes as senators wrap up work on a cybersecurity bill authored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).