Social Issues

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**FILE** President Obama, joined by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, signs Dec. 17 the bipartisan tax package that extends tax cuts for families at all income levels in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (center) listens as President Obama announces initiatives to support military families Monday. From right are: Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Mr. Gates, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Associated Press)

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Abortion foes gather Jan. 24 in front of the U.S. Supreme Court for a rally against the Roe v. Wade decision 38 years ago that legalized abortion. An estimated three dozen members of Congress spoke to the "March for Life" crowd. (Associated Press)

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Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine defends the record of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, speaks on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. The new House majority leader said he believes President Obama is a citizen, he but refused to characterize people who question Mr. Obama's citizenship as "crazy." (NBC via Associated Press)

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A street artist entertains in Istanbul. Turkey, as an emerging power, is struggling to reconcile sharp differences within its society, which is marked by extremes of rich and poor, modern and traditional, secular and Islamic, as well as democratic and authoritarian. (Associated Press)

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On CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Sen. John McCain said, "We need to have a vote on" repeal of the health care law. (Associated Press)

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In this photo provided by NBC television, Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, speaks Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington. The new House Majority leader said he believes Obama is a citizen and that most Americans are beyond that question. He refused to call people who question Obama's citizenship "crazy," saying it's not nice to call anyone crazy. (Associated Press/NBC, William B. Plowman)

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Former legislator Najibullah Mujahed (center, in the background) addresses demonstrators on a loudspeaker on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a protest against the Afghan parliament elected in September. The protesters urged President Hamid Karzai not to inaugurate the new legislative body. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, that he believes President Obama is a citizen and that most Americans are beyond that question. He refused to call people who question Mr. Obama's citizenship "crazy," saying it's not nice to call anyone crazy. (AP Photo/NBC, William B. Plowman)

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Johnnie Mae Smith, 61, mother of Marie Smith who sued Dr. Kermit Gosnell after a botched abortion, looks at a newspaper with Gosnell's photo on it during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011, with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Opposition protesters throw stones at police after a pro-opposition rally Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. At least three people were reported dead as more than 20,000 people attended a rally organized by the socialist party to demand that that conservative Prime Minister Sali Berisha call early elections because of a corruption scandal.(AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

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** FILE ** This file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, (left) and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican. "Families and businesses have had to cut back, and they're demanding that Washington do the same," said Jordan, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the House conservative caucus. (Associated Press)

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DEVELOPER: Keith Forney is co-owner of a club in Ward 5 and a donor to a charity run by D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. (Jimmy Garvin Legacy Foundation)

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Savings would be wiped out because insurers would increase bids to recoup income, Medicare administrator Donald Berwick said. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this Jan. 6 photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio (right), accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, holds a copy of a proposal to repeal the Health Care Bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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A Feb. 23, 2010, file photo of the Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia. Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the facility, was charged Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011, with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California (center), flanked by House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland (left) and House Assistant Minority Leader James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, takes part in a Democratic Leadership Meeting on repealing the health care law Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Seated in the foreground are Rep. Karen Bass of California and Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island. (Associated Press)

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A poster of Liu Xiaobo, jailed Chinese activist and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is displayed as Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican (left), speaks Tuesday on Capitol Hill about human-rights issues. (Associated Press)

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Orthodox Jewish children gather outside a school in Beni Brak, Israel, on Thursday. Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel. Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country. (Associated Press)