Social Issues

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Jeff Thomson (left) and Kelsi Browning hands out free coffee to people who wait outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March, 25, 2013, a day before the case for gay and lesbian couples rights, will be argued before the Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

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North Dakota Republican Sen. Margaret Sitte poses for a picture at the state Capitol in Bismarck on March 22, 2013. The Bismarck Republican is the primary sponsor of a bill that the North Dakota Legislature passed that would essentially ban abortion by defining human life as beginning at conception. The bill is one of a series North Dakota lawmakers have passed this year, chipping away at abortion rights. (Associated Press)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks during her Capitol Hill news conference Thursday. The California Democrat wants President Obama’s health care law expanded to mandate that drug companies give Medicare better rebates on prescription drug purchases. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Kurds march with flags and a banner showing pictures of the three PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) activists killed in Paris last month to show support for them and to their leader Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned in Turkey, during a Feb. 16 2013, protest in Strasbourg, France. Kurds from France, Germany and Belgium gathered for the march. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden shakes hands with Neil Heslin (center), whose son Jesse Lewis died at the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., after Biden spoke in New York's City Hall Blue Room on March 21, 2013. Relatives of shooting victims from Newtown, Conn., stood with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (right) and Biden as they spoke in favor of an assault weapons ban. (Associated Press)