Lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring Utah schools to show students videos of fertilization and development of a fetus ...

Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists are channeling their frustration over the legalization of the procedure in Arizona into ...

SBC president appears to have endorsed proposed legislation in Tennessee that would impose the death penalty on women who ...

Holy Cross Father Wilson Miscamble, emeritus professor of history at Notre Dame, told OSV News he was “deeply pleased” by ...

A professor at the University of Notre Dame has declined a research appointment at the school, following weeks of outcry from students, staff and several U.S. Catholic bishops, over her prominent ...

Scientists warn that radiation and microgravity pose a major threat to human reproduction in space. Understanding these ...

For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...

Tennessee has long punished doctors for performing abortions. Lawmakers have historically shied away from policies that punish women seeking them.

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA ...

Environment / Books & the Arts / James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, asks if it’s too late for humanity to ...

Arizona Republicans are fighting over whether to send a hard-right candidate to the general election for governor, even after recent statewide losses.

Today’s persecution of Christians is one of the most prevalent crises in the world today, a Vatican official told the United Nations.