All posts tagged "Gabby Giffords"

Former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords shared that she and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly, who has been shortlisted as a potential running mate for Kamala Harris, were trying to have a child through in vitro fertilization before an attempted assassin nearly ended her life.

In a post on the social media app X, Giffords responded to a clip of Vance’s resurfaced — and widely spread — remarks about “childless cat ladies” running the government, by stating “Vice President [Kamala Harris] is a proud mom of two remarkable stepchildren–and so am I.”

“[Mark Kelly] and I were trying to have a baby through IVF before I was shot and that dream was stolen from us,” Giffords wrote. “To suggest we are somehow lesser is disgraceful.” ...

Shooting victim Gabby Giffords and others hold an event at the Safeway supermarket where the 2011 Tucson shooting occurred to urge action on “common sense solutions” to reduce gun violence.

Two years ago Patricia Maisch gained first-hand experience of America's epidemic of gun violence. She was attending a street rally called by Tucson politician Gabby Giffords when shooting erupted, and she helped disarm the gunman by grabbing his second magazine thus preventing him from reloading.

The US Navy named a new warship after Gabrielle Giffords on Friday, honoring the former Arizona lawmaker who survived a gunman's bullet to the head a year ago.

For once, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wasn't the one crying on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

More than a year after surviving a gunshot to her head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) will step down from office to focus on her continued recovery.