ABORTION

The high abortion rate of female fetuses has led to a dramatic gender imbalance in India ? over the fifty-year period from 1961 to 2011, the number of girls born per 1,000 boys plunged from 976 to 914, according to the census.

Justin Bieber's mother, Pattie Mallette, went on the Today show to promote her book, where she spoke about becoming pregnant at the age of 17 and choosing to keep the baby that would eventually become the teen pop phenom that is Justin Bieber.

Like the rock industry itself, Rolling Stone fell into a state of self-satisfied lethargy and irrelevance.

When it comes to the film industry, risky comedies starring women are scare. It seems that for every 10 movies like "The Hangover," there are one or two like "Bridesmaids." Leslye Headland's "Bachelorette" is one of those rare motion pictures that dare to feature inherently flawed female characters.

The video, released on Thursday, highlights the pledges President Obama has kept since entering the White House. But what promises hasn't he kept?

Apparently, the Democrats don't think the average woman voter is very shrewd.

Usually, it's women who suffer violence from men in Turkey. Now that a rape victim has reacted, killing and beheading her attacker, the debate in the country isn't about the murder she committed. It's about whether she can abort the child of her alleged rapist.

More than fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination and more than four decades after Robert’s murder, the “Kennedy” name is the gold standard for liberal Democrats.

The Democratic National Committee's 2012 platform, released Monday night, will be officially adopted on Tuesday night.

Indians actually share the values promulgated by the Republican Party rather than the Democrats whom they usually vote for.

The Democrats have gathered in thousands at the downtown football stadium at Charlotte, N.C., for the three-day Democratic National Convention starting Tuesday. The Party unveiled its formal 2012 election policy, ahead of the convention Monday night, advocating the strengths of their presidential candidate incumbent Barack Obama over Republican rival Mitt Romney.

The RNC has reportedly chosen Clint Eastwood as Thursday's mystery speaker but there are most outspoken choices that better represent the party's actual stance on hot-button issues.

A comparison of past RNC platforms truly demonstrates how far the party has swung to the right.

The last "Personhood Amendment" in the nation failed to make Colorado's November ballot, falling short of the required petition signatures by some 4,000. Backers of the legislation have promised to challenge the final count in court.

The RNC draft committee has come up with a platform that was recently called "the most conservative" in modern history. But some Republicans have spoken out against some of its more controversial positions.

Paul Ryan, the 42-year-old representative from Wisconsin and the recently-selected running mate for Mitt Romney, granted an interview to a reporter in what looked to be a hardware store days after Akin's controversial comments on legitimate rape and abortion. In the interview, Ryan discounted the exception of rape, saying "the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life."

Long-Shot Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Smith of Pennsylvania stepped into the politically treacherous waters of the women's rights debate on Monday, making himself the latest in an ever-growing list of GOP politicos who have found themselves putting their feet in their mouths after flubbing a comment on the topic.

Sunday morning's talk show circuit featured a particularly matronly streak, with abortion, birth and Mother Nature dominating most of the political punditry's attention. The talk shows rolled into the day amid the continuing fallout over Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comment and Mitt Romney's "birth certificate" comment.

Mitt Romney's campaign told a Denver TV reporter in advance she could ask him no questions about Todd Akin or abortion, she said Thursday.

The government's role in the housing market does not generally inspire the same impassioned responses as abortion or health care, but the future of one mortgage tax policy could affect the fate of around $85 billion in taxpayer benefits.

In Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin, most voters do not want to see the kind of changes to Medicare proposed by the Romney-Ryan ticket.