Patrick Mahoney

While the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case with a potentially far-reaching impact on church-state separation on Wednesday morning, Religious Right leaders held a press conference on the sidewalk outside, where they exuded a hopeful confidence.

Religious Right activist Janet Porter has been pushing her “heartbeat bill” – designed to criminalize nearly all abortions – at the state level for years.

On Thursday morning, about 50 protesters gathered in the bitter cold in front of a new Planned Parenthood facility that is under construction in northeast Washington, D.C.

For the last several months, Glenn Beck has tirelessly focused on a case involving a young woman named Justina Pelletier who was diagnosed by one set of doctors at Tufts Medical Center as having a condition known as mitochondrial disease, for which she had been receiving treatment.