5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (683+ words) CHARLESTON " A bill prohibiting the distribution and prescription of abortifacients to West Virginia residents now heads to the floor of the state Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended an amended committee substitute for Senate Bill 173, prohibiting abortifacients, for passage to…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (140+ words) ROME (AP) " Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be "pro-life." Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday…...