Indiana's attorney general Oct. 15 petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review and reverse a ruling by a lower court declaring unconstitutional an Indiana law that makes it illegal for women in the state to have an abortion solely based on the race, gender or disability of a fetus.

"Is it right to hire a hit man to solve a problem? No, you can't. It's not right to take out a human being, a small one, too, in order to fix a problem. It is like hiring a professional killer," the pope said.

A Catholic bishop has praised a decision by the British government not to impose exclusion zones around abortion clinics throughout the country.

One of the leading novelists of our age on faith, fiction and his distrust of religious institutions.

A diversity of views on abortion made for an actual debate among those who have power in Argentina.

A grassroots movement came closer than ever to achieving the decriminalization of the procedure in the homeland of Pope Francis.