Following his formal entrance into the 2012 presidential race on Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed on to co-chair an anniversary gala for the influential anti-abortion rights policy group Americans United for Life, which was founded in 1971.
Based on Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ call last summer for a “truce on social issues,” for some, it came as a surprise that he wasted no time announcing his support for House Bill 1210, which the governor said Friday he will sign the minute it hits More…
After the failure to defund Planned Parenthood on a federal level last week, a new trend is emerging: states attempting to strip family planning funding from entities that provide abortion services.
So far two Midwest states have taken the lead: Minnesota and Indiana.
Update, 10:50 a.m. EST: This post now includes a witness list for the hearing.
The U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution is scheduled to hold a hearing Friday titled “Defending Marriage,” called by subcommittee chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who has recently called for the impeachment of President More…
Though last Friday’s near-government shutdown did not lead to a major defunding of Title X family planning programs, at least one anti-abortion group, Students for Life of America, still sees it as a “partial victory for the pro-life movement,” and is unlikely to give up the fight to defund Planned More…
Though congressional lawmakers avoided a federal government shutdown by agreeing to a short-term funding extension late Friday and early Saturday, there’s still concern that the deal negotiated between President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut $38.5 billion of government More…
On Tuesday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) rolled out the House GOP’s “budget blueprint” for 2012. Meanwhile, the White House and the GOP-controlled House still have not reached an agreement on how to to continue funding the government through the end of the current fiscal year, which ends in More…
One of the anti-abortion rights movement’s leading political fundraisers in 2010 has gone to the airwaves with one of Planned Parenthood’s most vehement critics, former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson.
The anti-gay, politically influential Christian organization the Indiana Family Institute (IFI) has been endorsed by the State of Indiana as “collaborative partner” in administering the state’s federally funded Healthy Marriage program since 2008.
The House approved a three-week continuing resolution on Tuesday, according to Roll Call. The stopgap spending measure, which passed 271-158, will keep the government funded through April 8 and would cut $6 billion in spending from the federal budget by the end of this week, if the Senate approves it.
Despite the More…
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