Earlier today, an eight-minute “undercover” video surfaced purporting to show Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services talking about selling the body parts of aborted human fetuses for the non-profit’s financial gain. Which would be shocking, certainly—if any of it were true.

A 10-year-old girl allegedly impregnated by her stepfather will not be allowed to have an abortion under Paraguay’s laws, drawing ire from United Nations experts who say forcing her to have the child constitutes a human rights violation.

You may have heard about the New York Times’ most recent awful decision to make room for an awful op-ed, this time in the form of Sofia Vergara’s ex-fiance clamoring to get out of a contract because he essentially he decided he no longer wanted to be in one. This particular contract, of course, was about embryos. Enter Fox News.

With the Supreme Court gearing up to hear arguments over what will be an historic decision on same-sex marriage later this month, a group of 100 conservative “scholars” filed a last-ditch attempt to convince the Court to put a stop to all this sin once and for all. Their argument, in short: legalizing same-sex marriage would directly lead to 900,000 more abortions in 30 years.

A five-sentence order issued by the Supreme Court today ensured that Texas's abortion clinics can stay open—for the time being.

Stevie Nicks is on a publicity blitz for a new album, and she didn't hold much back during a recent Billboard interview, confirming stories of prodigious cocaine use and an unplanned pregnancy with Eagles frontman Don Henley.

Toni Braxton drops more than a few bombshells in her new memoir, but by far the most extreme is her apparent belief that God gave her 11-year-old son autism because she once had an abortion.

If the restrictive Texas abortion law passed on Friday survives legal challenges, health experts are worried that low-income women may turn to Mexico for "abortion pills".

The Texas House of Representatives just passed a bill which will place broad restrictions on abortions. The bill will now go to the Texas Senate for vote.

When we last checked in with Scott DesJarlais, the distinguished U.S. rep from Tennessee's 4th district pictured here with an un-aborted child, he had been recorded in 2000 pressuring his mistress into having an abortion. This was notable because DesJarlais — who was elected back in 2010 thanks to support from an antiquated movement called "the Tea Party" — is virulently anti-choice. Here, he says so on his website:

Virginia's rapey abortion bill, the one that would require women to submit to an ultrasound before getting an abortion, has prompted a slew of responses. People are angry! But a group called Government Free VJJ has taken an Etsy stance in their approach to the issue.

Wonder of wonders! Prominent republican and former presidential candidate John McCain has come forward and said something almost entirely sensible about the contraception debate.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, the fearless leader who took two years to investigate serious allegations of child rape at his state university, doesn't get what all the fuss about this proposed ultrasound abortion bill is about. When women are forced to sit through a screening of their fetus' ultrasound, he suggests, they can just close their eyes.

Virginia Del. Dave Albo brought down the state house floor with this prepared monologue today.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell said in a lengthy statement today that he would not support the proposed bill that would require transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions—a procedure that many considered akin to "state sanctioned rape."

Have you heard about Virginia's new rapey abortion bill? On Monday, the state legislature passed a bill that would require women to undergo ultrasounds before going through with an abortion.

Kansas has issued a license to Planned Parenthood to continue providing abortions in light of new, burdensome regulations that could shutter the state's two other clinics. Those clinics go to court today to fight the regs. [Image WeNews/via Flickr]

Last week, the House of Representatives voted to defund Planned Parenthood, mainly because it provides abortions, even though its federal funding can't go toward abortions. Tonight, Jon Stewart tackled that issue and poked fun at some famous anti-abortion Republicans.

A concerned reader wrote us about our earlier post on Plan B. Apparently, we somehow misidentified the category of babykiller the pill falls under: "Pro-lifers love that the media continually get this wrong! Plan B is emergency contraception, not an abortifacient." Yes, of course! Rather than murdering a defenseless human being, with a beating heart and developed feelings and adorable little fingers and toes, Plan B actually prevents that little miracle of God from fully fertilizing its intended target. Sounds like a lot less fun than the outright destruction of a unique human soul, but, hey, however you pro-death types like to get your kicks is fine with us. Anyway, Gawker regrets the error. And the loss of life.