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Cheryl Wetzstein

cwetzstein@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.
Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.
Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.
She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

"It is my wish that throughout my visit, the family should be a recurrent theme," Pope Francis said in his address to Congress. "Yet I cannot hide my concern for the family, which is threatened, perhaps as never before, from within and without. Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family." (Associated Press)

Pope Francis hopes to mend shattered bonds of family life on U.S. visit

The American family landscape that Pope Francis is viewing during his first visit to the United States differs vastly from that of 1965, when Paul VI became the first pontiff to step onto U.S. soil: More couples are divorced or living together and fewer are married today than they were in the '60s.

September 24, 2015
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, stands at microphone with the Pickering family and pro-life leaders at a Capitol Hill press conference before a Senate vote on a bill to ban most abortions in the fifth month of pregnancy. The Pickerings' son, Micah, was born at 22 weeks old, and is an example of the children that could be saved by the bill. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Steve Daines of Montana and James Lankford of Oklahoma attended. (Image courtesy of Susan B. Anthony List).

Senate blocks pain-capable abortion bill

The Senate on Tuesday scuttled an attempt to advance a bill that would prevent most late term abortions based on a concern that the fetuses would feel the pain of abortion.

September 22, 2015
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., center, speaks during a news conference on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Republicans predicted House passage Wednesday of the late-term abortion ban after dropping rape provisions that angered female GOP lawmakers and forced party leaders into an embarrassing retreat. Franks is joined by, from left, Rep. Joseph Pitts, R-Pa., Rep. Marcia Blackburn, R-Tenn., Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Tenn., Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House abortion bills debated, scheduled for Friday vote

A bill to divert Planned Parenthood federal funding to community health centers for a year, and another measure that would penalize doctors if they fail to give medical care to infants born alive during an abortion are scheduled to be voted on Friday in the House.

September 17, 2015
Rep. Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina Republican, is part of a bipartisan group in Congress pushing label the killing of Christians "religious genocide." (Associated Press)

Lawmakers say killing Christians is ‘religious genocide’

The mass torture, murder and displacement of Christian families and other religious minorities in the Middle East must be called by its real name -- genocide -- members of Congress said Thursday at a gathering of a nonpartisan organization that advocates against religious persecution.

September 10, 2015
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, told Congress that her organization adheres to medical ethical standards and that just 1 percent of their budget goes to fetal research services. She also said the series of undercover videos were obtained illegally and "doctored." (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pro-life groups to rally at Capitol Hill in wake of videos

As the first congressional hearing begins into Planned Parenthood's practices with fetal tissue, pro-life groups are planning a Capitol Hill rally while a major reproductive health research group warns that shifting funds to community health centers will likely cause problems for low-income women.

September 8, 2015