“Abortion” on The Daily Caller

The percentage of Americans identifying as “pro-choice” is at a record low, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. (more)

On Laura Ingraham’s Monday radio show, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele offered his views on the NAACP’s shift to the left on so-called social issues on the heels of its decision to endorse same-sex marriage. (more)

Bridgeport, Conn. Bishop William E. Lori was installed as the new archbishop of Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, and he entered the cradle of American Catholicism with a series of bangs aimed at the Obama administration. (more)

Some pro-lifers tell The Daily Caller they are concerned about a Romney campaign fundraiser scheduled to be held with the chairman of the manufacturer of the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step, known as the “morning-after pill.” (more)

A pro-life student group is alleging that Planned Parenthood for America targets college students for their abortion services. (more)

The Obama administration is plenty content with legalized abortion and funding abortions with taxpayer funds, but when it comes to Americans visiting the White House, they must register their unborn children when they check in at the front door. (more)

American college campuses are supposed to be bastions of free speech that encourage the collision of ideas and tolerate peaceful protests about the issue du jour. Certainly my school, Dartmouth College, professes to uphold this ideal of frank dialogue and heartfelt, non-violent protest. (more)

Forget about fraternity rush, spring break, and cramming for exams. The students and faculty of Northern Kentucky University (NKU) have brought a disturbing new tradition to campus: justifying the destruction of pro-life displays as “freedom of speech.” (more)

Eric Holder is a busy man. When President Obama’s chief law enforcement officer isn’t tied up selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, refusing to prosecute self-serving cases of voter intimidation or ignoring “wanted dead or alive” bounties placed by black militants on the heads of private citizens, he’s busy conspiring with pro-abortion extremists to bring the full weight of the federal government down upon innocent pro-life advocates. (more)

Appearing on “The Laura Ingraham Show” Thursday to promote his book “NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter,” former President Jimmy Carter addressed the ever-hot topic of abortion — encouraging fellow Democrats to tone down their focus on the issue. (more)

In the U.K., a significant number of abortion clinics are under investigation for breaking the law by pre-signing consent forms, The Guardian reports. (more)

The Department of Health and Human Services has finalized the policies governing state health care exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and with it the rules governing abortion coverage under the new law. (more)

If you thought the tea party was over, think again. Kathleen Sebelius just shot a flare into a dynamite factory. (more)

First, it was promotion of “after-birth abortion.” Now, just as that hubbub dies down, a Portland jury has ruled that Kalanit Levy should never have been born. More precisely, the jury awarded $2.9 million to Kalanit’s parents for what is sometimes called “wrongful birth.” (more)

Texas’s Women’s Health Program provides preventative health services to more than 130,000 low-income women a year. Today the program is in jeopardy, with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announcing Friday that the federal government will stop funding it at the end of March. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday signed into law a controversial bill that requires women to have abdominal ultrasound exams before undergoing abortions. (more)

Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva created quite a ruckus when they proposed permitting “after-birth abortion” in a recent article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. To be sure, some of the reaction was too extreme. Death threats are never acceptable. But people had every right to push back hard against an agenda that would effectively destroy the very concept of universal rights by excluding the most weak and vulnerable among us from the right to life. (more)

Rick Santorum’s social-issues convictions have been his campaign’s bread and butter, but documents and interviews from his past show the former Republican senator was once a pro-abortion moderate. (more)

The Lone Star state is reminding the Obama administration of its unofficial motto: “Don’t mess with Texas.” (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell — facing outrage from women, national ridicule from television comedians and appeals from GOP moderates — came out Wednesday against a bill that would require transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions. (more)