For example, the Republican Party of Iowa is keenly interested in social issues such as abortion and marriage.
Both parties have certain issues, such as abortion, gun control, gay rights, immigration and health care, that define their differences.
But surveys have found 80% of Mexicans reckon the church should keep its nose out of moral issues such as abortion.
The debate over Plan B in many ways has been a proxy for broader social issues such as abortion and parental notification.
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For example, the Republican Party of Iowa is keenly interested in social issues such as abortion, marriage and embryonic stem cell research.
Occasionally, they became fed up and resorted to a referendum to change the things they really minded about, such as abortion or divorce.
Mr Leahy, a Vermont senator, is better known for backing liberal causes, such as abortion rights, than for his views on Middle Eastern politics.
Mr Giuliani's hawkishness could be a vital factor in his struggle to win over Republicans who think him too soft on social issues such as abortion.
Meanwhile, the new leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, encouraged Catholics to express their views on issues such as abortion.
For the moment, Mr Livingston has the confidence of both wings: he espouses fiscal conservatism but objects to attaching non-financial issues such as abortion to financial legislation.
NetDoktor, which began two years ago in Denmark and has since expanded into six other countries, alters its presentation of tricky issues such as abortion according to local sensitivities.
Halfway through his third hamburger, the conversation turned toward foreign policy and national security issues, topics of discussion that McCain clearly prefers over issues such as abortion or homosexuality.
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It is also a mistake to assume that women's preferences are driven only by hot-button issues such as abortion and contraception, which Mr Santorum has driven so unhelpfully up the news agenda.
Either Clinton or Obama could make a strong appeal to Catholics on peace-and-justice issues, yet both are out of sync with Catholic teaching on issues such as abortion, stem-cell research and gay rights.
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The argument that some matters, such as abortion, are of such moral urgency that they supersede a general preference for devolution sounds reasonable, until you try to decide which subjects are suitably urgent.
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It is in their economic interest to vote Democratic, but they don't because those crafty Republicans have got them all worked up about silly moral and cultural issues such as abortion, guns and gay marriage.
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Most watchers of the Supreme Court have similarly concluded that Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have had a great impact on their colleagues in cases of particular interest to women, such as abortion and sex discrimination.
But today polarisation is almost instant, thanks in part to the growing role of non-negotiable issues such as abortion in American politics, in part to the rise of a media industry based on outrage, and in part to a cycle of tit-for-tat demonisation.
This worrisome predilection has only been whetted by the failure at Copenhagen, and we can anticipate far more activity in 2010 and beyond, not only on climate change but in a host of areas traditionally considered "domestic" policy (such as abortion, firearms control and the death penalty).
One vital issue, two weeks ago the Catholic Bishops published an election guide for voters and they suggested that they should press candidates, their supporters should press candidates on issues such as abortion, marriage and euthanasia, would you have subjects that you would press your supporters, your members to press their candidates on?
Mr. Dworkin was also a widely read public intellectual, writing essays on such issues as abortion, campaign finance and Supreme Court confirmation hearings, frequently for the New York Review of Books.
By doing this, the Pope has expressed his dissatisfaction at the way in which some German faithful are challenging the Vatican on such matters as abortion counselling, and allowing divorced persons to receive communion.
Other groups, such as anti-abortion activists, consider stem cell research the taking of a human life because embryos must be destroyed to harvest the stem cells.
And she said there was no such thing as "abortion on demand" in Britain, as all women seeking abortion had to first go through their options with two medical practitioners.
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To drive through it, he quickly forged a relationship with Mario Cuomo, who was then the state's Democratic governor, and took a non-partisan line on issues such as immigration and abortion.
Indeed, it may be this very fact that has led the conversation away from the anticipated referendum on the Obama economy and in the direction of social issues such as Medicare and abortion.
The party is a fractious coalition of groups that coalesce every few years to fight elections: they include foreign-policy hawks, isolationists, social conservatives (such as anti-abortion groups and gun lobbies) and fiscal disciplinarians.
It is hardly a revelation anymore that the media play the news in subtle but tilted ways to protect what they think is a settled social good, such as access to abortion, no matter what.
W. Bush administrations and who surprised both ends of the political spectrum by setting aside his conservative personal views on issues such as homosexuality and abortion to keep his focus sharply medical, died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.
And Republicans stressed issues that attract black social conservatives, such as gay marriage or abortion.
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