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Screenshot of Students for Life of America's postcard featuring rape and incest arguments

‘Abortion doesn’t unrape you’

Following election disaster, anti-abortion activists look to reframe discussion of rape
| 12.13.12 | 2:11 pm | View Article

After two GOP Senate candidates saw their campaigns implode when they made controversial comments about abortion and rape, Republicans like Sen. John McCain have been asking their party to just shut up about abortion More….

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Anti-abortion scholar: Restrictions should be designed to raise costs for women

| 09.21.12 | 9:34 am | View Article
Anti-abortion restrictions should be designed to raise “the costs” of abortions in order to discourage women from obtaining them, a prominent scholar for a leading anti-abortion group told an audience of social conservative activists in Washington last weekend. More…

Catholic university sues feds over birth control mandate

Ashley Lopez | 02.21.12 | 11:39 am | The Florida Independent | View Article
Ave Maria University, a Catholic university in a town outside of Naples, Fla., is suing the federal government over a recent mandate requiring health insurers to cover contraception as a preventive service. More…

Immigration strategy proposed at CPAC: ‘Let’s put a wall around the welfare state’

Marcos Restrepo | 02.13.12 | 2:59 pm | The Florida Independent | View Article
Panelists at the Conservative Political Action Conference spoke Saturday about immigration measures that would uphold conservative values and attacked federal action against immigration-enforcement state laws. More…

National Organization for Marriage co-founder says equality does not require benefits for gay couples

| 02.13.12 | 12:18 pm | View Article

A major theme at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference More… in Washington, D.C., was that the Republican Party should once and for all erase the line between social and fiscal issues and further the argument that conservative social policies benefit the economy.
Same-sex marriage opponents participating in a Saturday panel

At CPAC, leaders urge steering birth control conversation toward abortion

| 02.10.12 | 4:01 pm | View Article

Stop talking about birth control. That was the key message from some of the most prominent leaders of America’s anti-abortion movement, speaking Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference More…. During a talk on how to advance the movement through messaging, an all-female panel discussed the Obama administration’s birth-control-coverage mandate and

(VIDEO) Peter Brimelow brings controversy to CPAC for nationalist views

| 02.09.12 | 7:33 pm | View Article

The American Conservative Union has already taken heat early into this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference for banning a pro-gay conservative group while welcoming a speaker with controversial views against multiculturalism that progressive advocacy groups have branded “white nationalist.” More …

Attacks against Occupy Wall Street, Islam expected at CPAC 2012

Ashley Lopez | 02.06.12 | 3:51 pm | The Florida Independent | View Article
Several big names in Florida are scheduled to make an appearance at one of the country’s biggest conservative conferences — set to begin this Thursday. More…