Each month, we create these brief synopses to help parents, educators, and advocates stay up-to-date and informed on events and decisions on Capitol Hill and across the country.

Read an Oct. 31, 2011, Washington Post story about the Obama administration’s decision not to renew a grant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to assist victims of human trafficking. Ongoing disagreements over access to abortion services played a role in the decision.

Read an Oct. 31, 2011, op-ed in The New York Times that sets out some of the problems of biology and the law that the proposed amendment there faces.

Read a Dec. 28, 2010, Washington Post story about the Supreme Court and abortion.

Read a Dec. 30, 2010, post at Christianity Today‘s politics blog.

Melody Rose is the Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Instruction at Portland State University. She is also the founder of The Center for Women, Politics & Policy and the founder and director of the National Education for Women’s Leadership Oregon, and she is the author of Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide (2008) and Safe, Legal and […]