Navigating the conservative currents of his district, Cazayoux staked out traditionally Republican positions on several hot-button issues including abortion rights, gun control and immigration laws.
More recently, he elevated his fire directly at Romney, labeling him a flip-flopper on conservative issues including abortion rights, cap and trade and government mandated health care.
An African-American woman whose views on a range of issues, including abortion and gun control, clearly place her in the moderate or liberal wing of the GOP.
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Yet it is hard to believe that the Republicans' problem with women has not been aggravated by Mr Santorum's obsession with who is doing what to whom in the bedroom, or by Mr Romney's promise to defund Planned Parenthood, the organisation on which millions of poor women depend for family planning (including abortion), or by the antics of Republican state legislatures.
In other cases since then, the Supreme Court has given states broad leeway to restrict abortion, including mandating waiting periods and tightly regulating how abortion providers practice.
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Rudy Boschwitz , Coleman also has taken some stances that don't square with most Minnesota voters, including opposition to abortion rights and gun control.
There was a smattering of protesters, including an anti-abortion protester up in a tree, and some glitches with the sound system.
The committee's questions once again touched on a range of hot-button issues, including gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage, the death penalty, and the role of international law in American jurisprudence.
The legislation had bipartisan support at the time, including from lawmakers who favor abortion rights.
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The legislation had bipartisan support at the time, including from lawmakers who favor abortion rights but who gained assurances that the law wouldn't be used to undermine abortion laws or to interfere with physicians' judgments about how to treat premature babies.
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What appears to have ended negotiations were the Republican demands that Governor Dayton agree to their social agenda issues, including Voter ID legislation and abortion restrictions, as the price for the Republicans allowing the very wealthy to pay a little more.
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Specifically, NRB wants to ensure that religious expression, including views on gay marriage and abortion, is not classified as hate speech and blocked by private companies.
"Ms. Halligan has a well-documented record of advocating extreme positions on constitutional issues, pushing legal arguments beyond what I think is reasonable, including in cases involving Second Amendment gun rights, abortion, the death penalty and others, " said Sen.
Further, if evidence of pregnancy has some value to the case (which it rarely would), evidence is plentiful through the existence of the many records that would establish that the victim had, in fact, been pregnant including, ironically, the medical transcripts of an abortion.
Mr Kerry had the tougher task, of evoking the language of faith (including reminding listeners he is a Catholic) while promising to defend abortion rights and opposing Mr Bush's proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage.
This would make clear abortion was permitted where a mother's life was in danger, including from suicide.
Last summer the health department decreed that all new health-insurance policies should cover birth-control services for women, including the morning-after pill (which most pro-lifers consider a form of abortion) and sterilisation.
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