For the first time, a transsexual woman and an openly gay man were sworn into the Polish parliament on Tuesday, as Anna Grodzka and Robert Biedron took their elected seats in Warsaw.
A recent poll shows Mississippians are divided in their support of Initiative 26, a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion by defining a fertilized human egg as a human being.
In his second run for Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney's campaign team has been witnessing a favorable trend among the female voters in the recent independent polls, which clearly wasn't the case in the 2008 campaign.
On Monday, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told multiple news outlets that while he is pro-life, he is concerned the state's proposed personhood amendment could have negative impacts on women's health. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Personhood USA implied the measure could go as far as prohibiting birth control pills.
Herman Cain said on Sunday that he opposed abortion under all circumstances, including in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother's life. But that's not what he has said in the past.
State legislatures have proposed 900 bills dealing with reproductive rights this year, 600 of which are anti-choice.
The Shining doesn't have anything on these ghostly locations because each of these haunted places is 100% real. Here are the real deathly stories of five of the most haunted sites in America.
While Herman Cain's recent campaign ad featuring his cigarette-smoking chief of staff has become a viral sensation, the GOP presidential hopeful has made some equally bizarre advertisements in the past.
Mississippi is considering a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban all abortions, in the most direct state challenge yet to the Roe v. Wade precedent.
As the global population is about to cross seven billion, experts are warning that skewed gender ratio could be a major concern.
Come on, America! Who wants to go to a fake haunted house for Halloween when you can experience real haunted houses (and some terrifying haunted roads) that have years of ghostly visitations and paranormal happenings to their names? Our top 13 picks span the U.S., choosing only those haunted locales with the most documentation, the scariest histories, and the creepiest happenings.
Go Ask Alice is a sex education forum run by Columbia University' health services department. The site gives students a platform to ask health and sex-related questions and receive responses from educated health professionals who use the penname Alice. It is an internet resource produced by the Alice Health Promotion Program at Columbia University. However, the site is coming under fire for its methods of sex education.
At a recent press conference, 2012 GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called regulating late-term abortions a state issue. The video of her remarks is online, but she now says she never made them.
Republicans Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann took veiled swipes at surging presidential rival Herman Cain on Saturday as six of the party's White House hopefuls courted social conservatives at an Iowa forum.
Mitt Romney may see an opening and turn his campaign squarely on the first caucus.
Rick Santorum, a 2012 candidate for the Republican Party nomination for U.S. president, said he would eliminate federal funding for birth control if he were president, because sex should only be for procreation. Does he live in this world?
GOP primary candidate Ron Paul is the first to launch a series of harsh campaign ads in early voting states, spending over $2 million dollars for ads in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. But will it be enough to raise Paul's chances, as the libertarian firebrand continues to lag behind Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry? Or will they be just enough to keep his presence in the debates?
Herman Cain seemed to imply Wednesday night that abortion is an issue that should be left to families, contradicting his previous statements.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino thinks that Pittsburgh and Syracuse acted too quickly in deciding to leave the Big East for the ACC after a long history with the conference.
Europe's highest court has ruled that scientists can't patent embryonic stem cell techniques for research. Scientists call the move devastating, but Christian and moral rights groups hail it as a victory against the commercialization of the human body. The case was triggered when German Greenpeace charged Dr. Oliver Bruestle with violating public order and morality.
Ron Paul is airing an anti-abortion ad in Iowa in the hopes of courting social conservatives ahead of the first caucus in the nation.
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline engaged in a pattern of misconduct while investigating abortion providers, a report said.
