Social Issues

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**FILE** A group of Vietnamese sex workers are given a class on safe sex by members of an HIV/AIDS outreach network at a karaoke club in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Oct. 12, 2009. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Guatemalan river-raft worker steers a group of Central American migrants journeying north to the U.S., across the Suchiate river on a makeshift raft at the Guatemala-Mexico border crossing in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on Sept. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A Syrian refugee woman cooks in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo / Manu Brabo)

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Three displaced Syrian children play in puddles in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A displaced Syrian woman and her granddaughter are seen in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A displaced Syrian child runs past tents in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Mustafa, a displaced Syrian man affected by a hiatal hernia, is seen at his family tent in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A displaced Syrian child waits for food at an NGO charitable kitchen in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A displaced Syrian woman takes food in an NGO charitable kitchen in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Displaced Syrian men wait for food near an NGO charitable kitchen in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A displaced Syrian girl is seen among tents in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Demonstrators shout slogans against the government Oct. 23, 2012, in Madrid outside Parliament as lawmakers debate budget spending cuts for 2013. (Associated Press)

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Protestors attend an assembly in Madrid on Oct. 23, 2012, during a demonstration outside Parliament as lawmakers debate budget spending cuts for 2013. (Associated Press)

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Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration outside Parliament as lawmakers debate budget spending cuts for 2013 in Madrid on Oct. 23, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said there is bipartisan support to let the temporary reduction in payroll taxes expire. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Anti-abortion and abortion rights supporters stand face to face Jan. 23, 2012, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington during the annual March For Life rally. (Associated Press)

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Jennie McCarthy (left) and Melisa Erwin sit in an ice cream parlor in Albany, N.Y., on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The couple has filed a discrimination complaint with the New York Division of Human Rights after, they say, they were turned away from a potential wedding site because they are gay. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)