Social Issues

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Clinic owner Maria Couevas, center, listens to testimony about a bill that would add new regulations for abortion providers on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. Ellie Schilling, right, a lawyer who represents the state's abortion clinics. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, left, and Health and Hospitals Secretary Kathy Kliebert speak in support of a proposal that would add new regulations for doctors who perform abortions, on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. The House Health and Welfare Committee backed the bill. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they’ve secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation’s most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

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FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they’ve secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation’s most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

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A Washington, D.C., nonprofit that helps local women fund their abortions is offering its donors a gruesome little reminder of what their cherished contribution may prevent. (DC Abortion Fund)

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This undated photo provided by the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court shows Judge Gregory F. Singer. Singer is launching a drug court for women to address larger issues that are bringing more female defendants into the justice system. Singer proposed the idea after years of seeing female victims of abuse and sex trafficking return to his courtroom as defendants often addicted to drugs. (AP Photo/Montgomery County Common Pleas Court)

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**FILE** Rep. Cynthia Stafford, Miami Democrat, speaks against the parental trigger bill on the floor of the Florida House of Representatives at the Capitol in Tallahassee on April 4, 2013. House Bill 867: Parent Empowerment in Education, passed on a 68-51 vote. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2013 file photo, Vernita Gray, right, and Patricia Ewert, enter the living room of their Chicago home for their wedding ceremony. They were the first couple to be married after the gay marriage law was signed by the governor. Because Gray was terminally ill, they were issued an expedited marriage license before the state's gay marriage law took effect in June 2014. A family friend says Vernita Gray died late Tuesday, March 18, 2014. She was 65. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)