Outside the Beltway

Virginia has become the latest battleground for advocates of laws that define life as being at conception.

A bill likely to become law in Virginia will require all women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive ultrasound examination.

Meet Rick Santorum, who’s apparently running for Moralist In Chief.

The issue of contraception coverage and religious charities is not a new one, despite the way it may sound.

Maggie Gallagher’s anti-gay marriage argument is an example of pure conservative thinking.

Requiring a religious institution to comply with civilian laws is not a violation of religious liberty.

Whether it’s a “Ponzi Scheme” or not, Social Security has serious systemic problems that must be addressed.

How did we survive without all the molly-codding kids today get?

Is it worse for a child to see pornography or graphic violence?

Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is several weeks pregnant and desperately trying to salvage their marriage and his career.

Both sides in the John Edwards case are heading into uncharted territory.

Desperate women are finding some horrific ways to terminate their pregnancies. Some are being arrested for it.

Bristol Palin was paid $262,500 by Candies Foundation as an anti-teen pregnancy spokesman. That’s 7 times what they spent on teen pregnancy prevention.

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

Mike Huckabee channels Dan Quayle when he decides to comment on the pregnancy of Oscar winner Natalie Portman.

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

Critics of the GOP’s efforts to restrict Federal funding of abortion and related services confuse the concept of the right to have an abortion with the idea that someone has a claim on taxpayer dollars.

On the eve of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, another shot has been fired by those boycotting the meeting due to the presence of a gay conservative group.

The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” would remove the exception for non-forcible rape.

The nine months humans spend in the womb may be the most important time of our lives. And that has some profound implications.

If there’s an area where our attitudes and behaviors have changed more radically in my lifetime than gender equality, I can’t think of it.

Mutated bacteria spreading in India could mark the end of effective antibiotic drugs. The medical repercussions would be enormous.