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Cheryl Wetzstein

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

Drive grows for states to recognize ‘personhood’

Mississippi voters are likely to be the first in the nation to add to their state constitution "personhood" language that declares unborn children to be persons, effectively outlawing abortion and setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown — if they get a chance to vote on it in November.

April 21, 2011

GOP steps up defense of law on marriage

The Republican leadership in the House stepped up its efforts Monday to defend the federal government's marriage law, which is already under attack or implicated in as many as 10 lawsuits.

April 18, 2011

Abortion fight looms large in spending debate endgame

Some House Republicans say de-funding the reproductive health care organization Planned Parenthood is so important that it is worth risking a government shutdown, to try to force Democrats hand as the two sides try to reach an agreement on a budget for the remainder of 2011.

April 8, 2011

Faith groups cheer halt to adoption requirement

Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's office has confirmed that it is taking steps to block proposed rules that would compel private agencies to place foster children with unmarried couples, including gay couples.

April 6, 2011

Virginia measure highlights battle over gays’ adopting

A "sleeper measure" that would prevent Virginia child-welfare agencies from considering sexual orientation or religion in their placements has drawn hundreds of complaints — and the attention of an outraged Republican state lawmaker.

April 4, 2011

Polygamy’s wrongs traced in testimony

Canada's ban on polygamy should be upheld because it protects women and children, attorneys said Friday in a landmark case to decide whether the ban violates religious freedom.

April 3, 2011

Republicans out to trim welfare again

Just as they did the last time the party captured the House of Representatives, Republicans are pushing a major overhaul of the nation's welfare system.

March 23, 2011

Child placement law contested

Children in foster care deserve the best parents possible and thus the state can pick and choose what type of families they should be raised in, attorneys told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday.

March 17, 2011
The Grim Reaper (Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times)

Life spans up, death rates down

The Grim Reaper seems to be taking a few more holidays: The U.S. mortality rate has fallen for the 10th year in a row, a new federal report says, as Americans are living longer.

March 16, 2011
Eric H. Holder Jr.

Suit says Guatemalans purposely infected with syphilis

Attorneys for seven Guatemalan nationals are suing top U.S. public health officials, accusing them of "intentionally" infecting the Guatemalans or their family members with syphilis in a 1940s "Tuskegee-style" experiment.

March 14, 2011