Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to California's Prop. 8 constitutional amendment, which defines marriage in the state as only between a man and a woman.

Pro-family groups and other pediatricians have responded to a statement by the 60,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics supporting same-sex marriage.

Alliance Defending Freedom has made public a lawsuit alleging that abortion giant Planned Parenthood defrauded Washington State taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Communist China said it has performed an estimated 336 million abortions over the past four decades as part of its enforced family planning policy.

The murder trial of "house of horrors" abortionist Kermit Gosnell began March 18, with the medical doctor facing the death penalty for the suspected killings of seven babies at his Philadelphia abortion clinic.

The North Dakota legislature has passed bills that will ban abortion beyond six weeks of pregnancy, as well as for fetal abnormalities and sex selection.

Republican Senator Rob Portman has made a stunning flip on same-sex marriage, saying his son's homosexuality has forced him to rethink his position.