Ohio state senator wears T-shirt saying 'GOP: Get out of my panties'

Similoluwa Ojurongbe

theGRIO REPORT - Ohio's Republican state lawmakers are renewing their efforts to strip $1.7 million in funding from Planned Parenthood, but Democrat state senator Nina Turner is not having any of it...

Should faith and politics mix? Bill O'Reilly asks these reverends

Patrice Peck

The political pundit recently discussed the topic with two black reverends on his show "TheO' Reilly Factor."

GOP hopeful: 'Rape thing' not cause for abortion

Mike Baker, Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A Republican congressional candidate says abortion should not be legal, even when it involves 'the rape thing'...

Ad calls Samuel L. Jackson 'Uncle Tom'

Ugonna Okpalaoka

theGRIO REPORT - Actor Samuel L. Jackson is threatening to sue after learning about a political campaign ad that calls him 'the new Uncle Tom'...

Can women trust Mitt Romney?

Zerlina Maxwell

OPINION - After some very confusing statements about abortion over the past two days, the Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has some explaining to do to American women...

Scalia says abortion, 'homosexual sodomy' are easy cases

Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme Court among the easiest to resolve...

Kentucky candidate compares Obama to Hitler, Ted Bundy in new ad

Ugonna Okpalaoka

theGRIO REPORT - One Kentucky congressional candidate is shocking viewers with a new television ad calling President Barack Obama a 'murderer'...

GOP rep calls Planned Parenthood 'racist' baby killers

NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Jordan Frasier

WASHINGTON - A Republican member of Congress equated Planned Parenthood to 'slavery forces' and called it a 'racist organization' that was 'created with the sole purpose of killing children that look like mine'...

Obama: Akin 'somehow missed science class'

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama is mocking Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri for his remarks about a woman's body being able to avoid pregnancy during what Akin called a 'legitimate rape'...

Will Todd Akin's 'legitimate rape' remarks damage the entire GOP?

Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower.

FIRST READ - Missouri Senate GOP nominee Todd Akin’s remarks on rape yesterday not only could endanger the Republicans’ chances in that particular race...

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