Social Issues

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This 2013 family photo provided by Lindsey DeFilipi shows Ava Machado (left) with her mother Shauna Hadden, of Agawam, Mass. Hadden says she and her 6-year-old daughter are stranded in Brazil after police seized their passports because of a custody battle with the child’s father. (Associated Press)

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Children take an oath of citizenship during a ceremony at the old school house in Old Sacramento, Calif. on Wednesday. Today's children become tomorrow's workers and future retirees. Most Americans end up getting more back in benefits than they pay into the entitlement system, meaning the immigrants being added now could become liabilities later on. (Associated Press)

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Susan B. Anthony List and other pro-life groups have been lobbying Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, for weeks to lead the charge in the Senate on legislation would ban abortions 20 weeks into pregnancy, with exceptions for risks to the mother's life and rape or incest, though such a bill is unlikely to be taken up in the chamber. (Associated Press)

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Opponents of an abortion bill walk in circles around supporters of the bill as a committee holds hearings on the bill near by at the Texas state capitol, Tuesday, July 2, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Gov. Rick Perry has called lawmakers back for another special session with abortion on the top of the agenda. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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**FILE** Rep. Phil Roe, Tennessee Republican and a physician before being elected to Congress, delivers remarks during a news conference on Capitol Hill with fellow Republican members of the freshman class as they discuss health care overhaul in Washington on March 20, 2010. At right is Rep. John C. Fleming, Louisiana Republican, who was a family physician and former coroner before being elected to Congress. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Anti-abortion activist Pamela Whitehead (right) of Katy, Texas, argues with a pro-choice activist during the first day of hearings on House Bill 2 and Senate Bill 1 at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Activists of both sides attended the hearings in order bear testimony about the bills, which are aimed at restricting abortions across the state. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Guillermo Hernandez Martinez)