Abortion Issue

(AP/Gerald Hebert) by James Oliphant We are here again in Hart 216 and Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has begun his first round of questions. Each member of the panel will question Judge Sotomayor in 30-minute periods. Stay with the......

by James Oliphant With House leaders struggling to reach agreement on healthcare legislation, aiming toward a possible vote this week, a new hurdle has emerged: abortion. Some conservative Democrats are threatening to pull their support from the massive...

Posted by Josh Hafenbrack on September 11, 2009 A nationwide anti-abortion group launched an effort in Florida today to outlaw all abortions and certain types of birth control, including oral contraceptives and the morning-after pill. The religion-infused...

by Mark Silva and updated at 2:05 pm EDT President Barack Obama has been called a number of things. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina called him a liar, then apologized. FOX News Channel's Glenn Beck called him "racist,'' and......

by David G. Savage Illinois need not offer "Choose Life" license plates to motorists, under a ruling the Supreme Court let stand today. The justices turned down a free-speech claim from Choose Life Illinois Inc., a group that supports adoption......

by Mark Silva "Nazi Pelosi!'' a heckler called out today, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the Democratic leadership's plan for health-care legislation in Washington. On a street corner a few blocks from the White House the other day, a......

by Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook and updated again at 1:35 pm EDT House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unveiling the House's plan for a compromise on health-care legislation today, said the bill will offer new insurance for tens of millions......

by Noam N. Levey and James Oliphant With a historic floor vote looming on their healthcare bill today, House Democratic leaders secured an 11th-hour compromise late Friday night to settle a long-simmering debate over how to restrict federal funding for......

By Mark Silva At each juncture in the development of the health-care legislation, it seems, something has been added, or subtracted, solely for the purpose of getting the bill out of a gate. In the House, Democrats demanded a so-called......

by Mark Silva With President Barack Obama's job approval rating at a term-low near the end of his first year, the Pew Research Center's Andrew Kohut suggests that "what's really exceptional at this stage of Obama's presidency is the extent......

by Mark Silva and updated with president's statements. It's snowing so hard on Washington today that they are grounding all buses and surface trains. It's not going to stop anytime soon. There's already a foot of snow on the ground,......

How is it that the same people who go around talking about the evils of ???government intrusion??? and the virtues of ???limited government,??? the people who want ???government out of our lives??? and talk about ???personal responsbility,??? are the........