Abortion

Republicans are hopeful attention on the Gosnell trial will reignite debate on the abortion issue.

Ryan's remarks to the Susan B. Anthony List gala were his most extended on abortion since the 2012 election cycle.

The Republican National Committee chairman suggests Democrats "endorse infanticide" by supporting Planned Parenthood.  

Planned Parenthood's political arm denounced a bill in Alabama placing new restrictions on abortion clinics as the latest in a rising trend of anti-abortion-rights legislation around the country.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, called on Gov. Robert Bentley (R-Ala.) to veto the bill, which would require abortion doctors to maintain admitting privileges at a local hospital.

"This bill does nothing to protect the health of Alabama women. It aims to limit women’s access to safe and legal abortion," Richards said in a statement. 

Planned Parenthood is fighting to save a sex-education program in North Dakota that is under attack just as the state has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country.

The North Dakota Legislature is considering a measure that would likely cut off state funding for a comprehensive sex-ed program supported by Planned Parenthood and North Dakota State University.

"This is incredibly unusual. No state has tried to block a comprehensive sex education program like this, ever," Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, told reporters Monday.

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The measure bans abortions when doctors can first detect a heartbeat.

Democrats in North Dakota are already raising funds off a new state law that bans abortions at about six weeks of fetal development, the earliest cut-off point in the nation.

The North Dakota Democratic Party asked supporters for donations just hours after Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R) signed the so-called "heartbeat" ban into law.

"North Dakota has passed some of the most extreme legislation in the country, effectively limiting women's rights to make her own private healthcare choices," said Rania Batrice, communications director with the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, in a statement. 

The bills are certain to draw legal challenges that could end up in the Supreme Court.