Social Issues

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** FILE ** A lab technician at the Armed Forces Institute of Medical Science in Bangkok who works with the HIV Vaccine Trial Phrase Project in Thailand holds up a vial of AIDS vaccine in 2005 to check information and the manufacturing date printed on the vials. (AP Photo/Thai Public Health Ministry)

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A box of syringes used in a needle exchange program is displayed in an RV outfitted as a "mobile health unit" in the Trinidad neighborhood of NE Washington D.C., Wednesday, December 9, 2009. The program, run by non-profti PreventionWorks! is the oldest and largest syringe exchange program in Washington, D.C. and also offers HIV testing, drug treatment referrals, wound care and safer sex kits, food and other services. (Allison Shelley/ The Washington Times)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), Kentucky Republican, listens as Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, talks to the media after the Senate Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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** FILE ** Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Services facility in Philadelphia in 2005. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Reagan tax reform by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

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Illustration: GOP Health Care by A. HUNTER for The Washington Times.

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**FILE** Ernie Getford holds a sign in support of the controversial SB1070 illegal immigration enforcement bill during a rally at the state Capitol in Phoenix on April 23, 2010. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** An enormous crowd takes part in the Sept. 12 march on Washington to protest government spending and health care reform proposals. The field plan for a series of grassroots demonstrations Tuesday to push President Obama's health care agenda show the events will be tightly scripted with plans for "escalation," but organizers insist there is no comparison to rowdy town hall meetings and "tea party" protests challenging White House policies that they say conservatives staged. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)

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Norma McCorvey (bottom center) is confronted by police Sunday after marching on campus at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. At least five anti-abortion activists, including McCorvey, were led away in handcuffs Sunday from campus, where President Barack Obama was also to receive an honorary degree. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, signed a measure that will require Idaho to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance. The move comes as Democrats in Congress hope to pass health care reform this weekend. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield)

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In this Tuesday, May 27, 2008 file photo, the gurney used to restrain condemned prisoners during the lethal injection process is shown in the Texas death house in Huntsville, Texas. Texas and other states that lead America in executions are sentencing many fewer inmates to death, a trend that slowly is reducing the death row population in the United States, a report from an anti-capital punishment group says. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

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In this file photo from Dec. 8, 2009, Senator Ben Nelson is surrounded by reporters asking questions about the health care debate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. His amendment on abortion funding failed a floor vote late in the day. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, filed the lawsuit to strike down the federal health-care law in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. (The Washington Times)

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Rocky Galloway (left) and Reginald Stanley hold their twin daughters after the two men were married by the Rev. Sylvia E. Sumter (center) on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the first day that gay marriage was legal in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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**FILE** President Obama participates in an AARP town hall on health care on July 28, 2009, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, stresses the importance of state fiscal responsibility. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 15, 2010, a candlelight vigil is held at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts for freshman Phoebe Prince, 15, who had killed herself the previous day. Nine teens were charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of Prince, originally from Ireland, who killed herself after being raped and enduring months of torment by classmates in person and online. (Associated Press)

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A group of illegal immigrants walk with bottles of water shortly before nightfall as they cross the desert between Sasabe, Mexico, and Sasabe, Ariz., in April 2006. (Associated Press)

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In this Tuesday, June 2, 2009 file photo, John Pride, of Wichita, Kan., walks past a memorial outside Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kan. The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller said Tuesday, June 9, 2009 that Tiller's Wichita clinic will be "permanently closed." (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)