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Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Says GOP Stance on Gay Rights Not ‘Modern’ [VIDEO]

Former New York City Mayor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said in a television interview Thursday that the Republican Party's stances on some social issues, gay rights in particular, make it look like it isn't a modern party.
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Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum 2012: How He Can Win the Republican Nomination [CHART]

Rick Santorum is everywhere in the news these days, between his surge in the polls to controversial statements about abortion and President Obama's faith. If he continues to dominate the GOP primary narrative, there's a good chance the former Pennsylvania senator could win the Republican nomination.
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Rick Santorum Believes Abortion Doctors Should be Criminally Charged [VIDEO]

It seems as though the past is coming back to haunt Rick Santorum. The current hot-button political topic is contraception, which may have led Buzzfeed to rummage through the archives of Santorum statements and dig out his brutally conservative comments in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press last June.
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Charlie Chaplin Birth Mystery: Was He a Communist?

Charlie Chaplin, the iconic British actor with the toothbrush mustache, may have died in 1977, but it's actually his birth which is still a mystery. What led British Intelligence to conduct such an extensive and ultimately unsuccessful investigation into the comedian? FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover demanded that the MI5 open a file on Charlie Chaplin in 1952 because he believed the actor had communist links. The goal of the FBI was to have Chaplin banned from the United States.
A mother holds her baby outside a children's hospital in central Beijing

China: Year of the Dragon Will Bring Baby Boom Despite One-Child Policy

In the Year of the Dragon, China expects a 5 percent increase in births despite the country's strict one-child policy. This brings into question whether the one-child policy is still an effective population control tool. Or is the policy actually damaging Chinese society and economy?
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio

Birth Control Rules Fuel Pre-election Political Firestorm

The top Republican in the Congress on Wednesday denounced President Barack Obama's new rule on contraceptives as an assault on religious freedom and vowed to overturn it, as the White House sought to prevent the issue from becoming an election-year liability.
Emergency contraception, also known as the "morning after pill" and seen by many conservatives as akin to abortion, for the most part would not fall under the rule since it is already available without a prescription to those 17 and older.

White House Defends Contraception Rules as Criticism Mounts

The Obama administration is willing to work with Catholic universities, hospitals and other church-affiliated employers to implement a new policy that requires health insurers to offer birth control coverage, a top adviser to the president's re-election campaign said on Tuesday.
Pharmacy

Shippensburg University Plan B Vending Machine: What is Plan B?

Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania doesn’t have the same old vending machines that most schools do. They don’t carry chocolate bars, bags of chips or soda. A vending machine at Shippensburg University has been providing students with the Plan B, “morning-after pill,” for the past two years. The $25 emergency contraceptive pill isn’t the only product that students can buy from these machines. Condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests can also be found in the vending machine on the Pennsylv...
Karen Handel

Karen Handel Resigns: 5 Times Ex-Komen VP's Views Ignited Controversy

Karen Handel resigned from the Susan B. Komen Foundation Tuesday under accusations that her anti-abortion stance pushed the breast cancer advocacy group to defund Planned Parenthood. Although the news has put her in the national spotlight, it was not the first time her staunch social conservatism ignited controversy.

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