After supporting abortion rights early in his political career, Mitt Romney is working to reinforce his credentials among conservatives.

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Romney’s Path to ‘Pro-Life’ Position on Abortion

RICHMOND — The Virginia Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would require women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, the first of several legislative measures this year that are expected to dramatically alter abortion law in the state. Read full article > >

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Virginia Senate passes bill requiring women to undergo ultrasound before abortion

DALLAS – “Not about politics” is the part that even some of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s most loyal supporters might question. The Dallas-based organization, which is the country’s biggest breast cancer charity, insisted its controversial decision to defund Planned Parenthood affiliates was made only in light of Komen’s new policy against supporting agencies that are under investigation. (The congressional investigation itself was launched by a conservative Republican and spurred by antiabortion groups.) Read full article > >

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Komen’s Planned Parenthood decision all about politics

The Associated Press reports that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, will cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the foundation has traditionally paid for preventive screening services. Read full article > >

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Why Komen defunded Planned Parenthood

Abortion is an issue that evokes passion on both sides, and journalists have to be deft in covering it lest their in-boxes overflow with angry e-mails. So it was this week with the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973 and the accompanying March for Life that has taken place here every January since. Read full article > >

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An incomplete picture of the March for Life

Private clinics that charge for pregnancy services including abortions will be able to advertise on television and radio under new rules.

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Abortion clinics cleared for TV

A newborn son’s death helped deepen Rick Santorum’s opposition to abortion, and he became an outspoken social conservative.

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Man in the News | Richard John Santorum: After a Child’s Death, a Religious Politician Became a Cultural Warrior

At the GOP debate in Sioux City, Iowa, Newt Gingrich defended his pro-life record , declaring, “I believe that life begins at conception” and stating that embryos at fertility clinics “should be considered life because by definition they’ve been conceived. I am against any kind of experimentation on embryos. And I think my position on life has been very clear and very consistent.” Read full article > >

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Gingrich’s abortion contortions

Rick Santorum has just come out of a campaign event at Cornell College, in Mount Vernon, Iowa, where the GOP presidential contender says he received the “typical college-crowd” questions challenging his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. But when he was their age, he felt differently about those issues, too. Read full article > >

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Rick Santorum is long on substance, short on support

In Ohio, a bill that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detectable — usually six to eight weeks into pregnancy — is the latest effort by activists to force a legal showdown.

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Ohio Bill Splits Anti-Abortion Forces on Legal Tactics

The field of religious advocacy has mushroomed on Capitol Hill in recent decades, a new survey shows , with the number of groups growing fivefold since 1970 and hundreds of millions spent each year to influence issues from school vouchers and immigration to the right of women overseas to have abortions. Read full article > >

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Religious lobbying groups multiply on Capitol Hill

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have recast their opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

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Bishops Renew Fight on Abortion and Gay Marriage

Republican lawmakers are objecting to the Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to d eny an anti-human-trafficking grant to a Catholic group , a dispute that reflects deep divisions over access to abortion and birth control. In late September, HHS ended funding to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to help victims of trafficking, or modern-day slavery. The church group had overseen nationwide services to victims since 2006 but was denied a new grant in favor of three other groups. Read full article > >

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Abortion, birth control access at issue in dispute over denial of grant to Catholic group

Critics say taxpayer money shouldn’t pay for abortions.

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Will Planned Parenthood Survive?

The efforts included an anti-abortion initiative in Mississippi and a crackdown on voting rights in Maine.

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Voters Defeat Many G.O.P.-Sponsored Measures