Europe's highest court has ruled that scientists can't patent embryonic stem cell techniques for research. Scientists call the move devastating, but Christian and moral rights groups hail it as a victory against the commercialization of the human body. The case was triggered when German Greenpeace charged Dr. Oliver Bruestle with violating public order and morality.
Ron Paul is airing an anti-abortion ad in Iowa in the hopes of courting social conservatives ahead of the first caucus in the nation.
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline engaged in a pattern of misconduct while investigating abortion providers, a report said.
Congress passed the Protect Life Act Thursday evening. The bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa), is an attempt to bar federal funds from going towards health care plans that cover abortions. The bill, HR 385, prohibits women who are under the Affordable Care Act to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion, even though most health insurance plans do in fact cover abortions.
As for Cain, he has handled the slings and arrows thrust upon him with humor, charm and aplomb.
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the controversial 'Protect Life Act' on Thursday, legislation aimed at keeping every cent of federal money from funding abortion services.
Republican Presidential Debate
Rick Perry hopes to end a string of poor performances and campaign rival Mitt Romney looks to consolidate his newly regained front-runner status at a U.S. presidential debate for Republicans on Tuesday.
Republican presidential contenders meet on Tuesday for the seventh debate in their race for the nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, leader of the center-right pro-market Civic Platform (PO) party, won re-election in Poland Sunday night. For the first time since the fall of communism in 1989, the major political party in Poland has maintained its grip on power. The fairly fought election in the formerly communist country establishes the country's democratic and economic stability.
Rick Perry hopes to end a string of poor performances and Mitt Romney looks to consolidate his newly regained front-runner status at a Republican presidential debate Tuesday evening.
Rep. Ron Paul won the Values Voter Summit's presidential straw poll, which was sponsored by the Christian conservative American Family Association and the Family Research Council.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wooed evangelical Christian voters on Saturday with promises he would protect families, but found his Mormon religion at center stage at a conference of social conservatives.
Poles are voting in a parliamentary election Sunday, likely to give the ruling center-right Civic Platform four more years in power to press on with gradual economic reforms and closer ties with the EU.
New technique in stem cell research advances field.
The funeral of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church, the church's leader Margie Phelps announced via Twitter for iPhone.
According to actress Connie Britton, a second Friday Night Lights movie is in the works with director Peter Berg at the helm.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has plummeted in the polls since conservatives discovered he was not 100 percent ideologically pure. But it is impossible to govern while maintaining a perfect conservative or liberal record.
Republican appropriators in the House of Representatives released a draft spending bill that blocks funding to Planned Parenthood unless the group certifies that it will stop providing abortions.
In a recent Rasmussen Report, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie carried 43% to President Obama's 44% of likely voters. But what exactly are his positions on some of the pivotal issues for 2012?
With his allegations that Planned Parenthood has misused federal funds, U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., is taking out his frustration by lobbing malicious, unsubstantiated allegations, just like an elementary school bully who's angry that he lost a game.
Poor women are more than twice as likely to have an unplanned pregnancy than their higher income counterparts, a trend that could contribute to the growing social divide in the U.S.
