Social Issues

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In this Dec. 9, 2010 photo, Stephen Farrar shows some of the medications he must take on a daily basis, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Across the country, thousands of HIV-positive people who once would have qualified for state-administered programs that provide free AIDS drugs to low-income people, have been placed on waiting lists or removed from the rolls, as the dismal economy has driven up the need for the program just as states are grappling with budget crises and as people are living longer with HIV. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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Carmel Stewart, a lawyer of the three women victims of restrictions on abortion in Ireland, reads the judgment from the European Court of Human Rights in the Grand Chamber Thursday Dec. 16, 2010, in Strasbourg, eastern France. Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in a judgment that harshly criticized Ireland's long inaction on the issue. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

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Illustration: Bill of Rights

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Protesters throw Molotov cocktails in Athens on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with riot police across the center city, smashing cars and sending Christmas shoppers fleeing during a massive labor protest against the crisis-hit government's austerity measures. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has assumed a high profile in leading a legal challenge of the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. (Associated Press)

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Chart shows breakdown of percentage of Medicaid costs associated with each enrollment group; and the decade long trend between enrollment and Medicaid spending.

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Supporters of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, hold posters with his photo during a protest in front of the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on alleged sex crime charges.(AP Photo )

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A police officer looks on as a car is removed from outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)

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Mounted police officers check a bag in Stockholm Monday Dec. 13, 2010 security has been stepped up in the Swedish capital after Saturdays suicide bomb attack.(AP Photo/ Fredrik Sandberg)

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"This is not a tax on the rich. This is a tax on the very, very, very rich," said Sen. Bernard Sanders. He delivered an eight-hour speech on Friday in opposition to President Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans. (Associated Press)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, poses in his office on Capitol Hill on Thursday. The midterm elections, which gave the GOP more seats in the Senate, strengthened Mr. McConnell's hand in dealing with the president. (Associated Press)

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Claes Borgstrom (left), the lawyer for the two women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Sweden in August, talks to the media at his office in Stockholm on Wednesday. Mr. Borgstrom, whose office is under police protection, denied that the case had anything to do with WikiLeaks or the current U.S. interest in Mr. Assange. (Associated Press)

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Marianne Ny (back left), Swedish director of public prosecution, answers questions at police headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Tuesday. She said in a statement that she had moved to have Mr. Assange extradited to Sweden on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. (Associated Press)

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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car-bomb attack in Ramadi on Sunday. A suicide bomber blew up his car outside government offices in a province west of the Iraqi capital, killing and wounding scores of people, including women and elderly people waiting to collect welfare checks, officials said. (Associated Press)

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Greenpeace activists form the word hope as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

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Denver Broncos football player Perrish Cox, right, and his attorney Harvey Steinberg arrive at the Douglas County Justice Center in Castle Rock, Colo., on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, as he arrives for a hearing in connection with the sexual assault charges that are pending against him.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2006 file photo, a sign on the Bridge Street Bridge shows where Antonio Varacalli drowned in 1917 after saving the life of a woman trying to commit suicide in the waters of the Seneca-Cayuga Canal in Seneca Falls, N.Y. For years, civic boosters have pointed out intriguing parallels that suggest Seneca Falls was the inspiration for Bedford Falls, the make-believe mill town in "It's a Wonderful Life." (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Muslim Advocates annual dinner on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, in Millbrae, Calif. Holder used the speech before the Muslim advocacy group near San Francisco to reiterate his resolve to prosecute hate crimes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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In this undated photo provided by the University of Connecticut on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, UConn offensive lineman Greg McKee is shown in a portrait in Storrs, Conn. McKee turned himself in to Connecticut state police on Wednesday morning, on child pornography charges. He is being held on $75,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned late in the day in Superior Court on charges of obscenity, importing child pornography and promoting a minor in an obscene performance. (AP Photo/University of Connecticut)

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Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, signs the new retirement law in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. The law lowers the country's retirement age to 58 and also nationalizes the pension system and extends coverage to the 60 percent of Bolivians who work in the informal economy. At right is Pedro Montes, leader of Bolivia's Workers Central Union. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)