“Marriage and Civil Unions”
ReligiousTolerance.org provides a summary page on marriage. The page includes links to information on different types of marriage, polygamy, same-sex marriage and divorce and remarriage.
ReligiousTolerance.org provides a summary page on marriage. The page includes links to information on different types of marriage, polygamy, same-sex marriage and divorce and remarriage.
Twenty-seven bills involving marriage and family status were pending in Congress in June 2013. Track the status of these bills at Govtrack.us.
Judy Waxman is the vice president and director of health and reproductive rights at the National Women’s Law Center, which works to protect women’s reproductive rights. Contact Maria Patrick.
Nancy Northup is the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women’s reproductive freedom. Contact senior press officer Kate Bernyk.
Daniel Dombrowski is a professor of philosophy at Seattle University. He is the co-author of A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion (University of Illinois Press, 2006).
William Saunders is senior vice president for legal affairs and senior counsel at Americans United for Life (AUL). He directs AUL’s international project and writes and speaks on a wide-range of life-related and human rights topics.
Anne Hendershott is a professor of psychology, sociology and social work at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. She is the author of The Politics of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2006).
June 12, 2013, The Hill article about the House Judiciary Committee sending a national late-term abortion ban to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. The bill would ban abortion after 22 weeks based on the disputed premise that fetuses can feel pain at 22 weeks of pregnancy.
June 17, 2013, The New York Times article about Republicans decision to push for new legislation that would ban abortion after 22 weeks on both the federal and state levels.