American Medical News: "When ella is available later this year, physicians will have to decide if prescribing the drug is right for them and their patients."

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ChristianNewsWire: "An open records request for public documents has been denied by the Iowa Medical Board, which tipped off Planned Parenthood of the Heartland that the request for public records had been made. Planned Parenthood then filed a suit against a medical watchdog group to block the release of the documents."

Christian Newswire: "Well over 15,000 students and parents have politely requested that Alverno College, a Catholic college founded by the School Sisters of St. Francis, delete several web site links that channel students to abortion advocacy groups. However, despite the large number of complaints the links remain up and running . . . "

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LifeNews: "The Iowa-based Planned Parenthood affiliate that has the nation's first abortion practitioner overseeing the new telemed abortion concept has filed a lawsuit to block a pro-life group's request for papers on the abortion practitioner's medical license. The pro-life group Operation Rescue is also concerned that the Iowa Board of Medicine tipped off Planned Parenthood officials to its request for the documents."

Las Vegas Sun (AP): "[T]he ruling drew praise from the Alliance Defense Fund, a group of Christian attorneys who helped with the lawsuit filed by two researchers against the administration rules.The American people should not be forced to pay for experiments _ prohibited by federal law _ that destroy human life,' said [Steven H. Aden], the group's senior legal counsel. 'The court is simply enforcing an existing law passed by Congress that prevents Americans from paying another penny for needless research on human embryos.'"

The Bulletin (Philadelphia): "[T]he Pennsylvania Supreme Court has determined that state law requires life-preserving treatment for people who are not near death and have not refused treatment . . . 'A person’s value isn’t based on his or her physical or mental abilities,' said ADF Legal Counsel [Matt Bowman]. 'No one should be allowed to decide that a person’s life is not worth saving just because he or she has a disability or medical condition.'" ADF News Release

Care 2 / Protect Women's Rights: "Urban Outfitters, a clothing store mostly targeted at college students and 20-and-30-somethings, decided to start selling Proper Attire condoms on its website . . . Rita Diller, National Director of STOP Planned Parenthood, a project of the American Life League, emailed her supporters, an email that was soon circulating among, according to RH Reality Check's Eleanor Bader, 'dozens of local anti-choice and church groups and . . . major national organizations including the Alliance Defense Fund, Women of Grace, and catholicnewsline.com.' The next day, Proper Attire condoms were pulled from Urban Outfitters' online catalogue."

The Tennessean: "A Tennessee-based Christian group believes it is saving lives by bringing the research to a grinding halt . . . Tennessee has become a key player in the arguments unfolding in court that could decide the fate of research involving human embryos. Even Tennessee's two U.S. senators are divided on the issue . . . Seeing that more embryos could be destroyed and the government would spend more money on the research, the Christian Medical and Dental Association immediately filed the federal lawsuit along with the Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of attorneys who defend religious freedoms, marriage and family."

OneNewsNow: "Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has ruled against family members who wanted to end the life of a man with mental disabilities . . . Randall Wenger of the Independence Law Center and an allied attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) tells OneNewsNow the court stood with 53-year-old David Hockenberry, who has had acute mental disabilities since birth."

National Catholic Register: "The question remains as to whether the injunction applies to research using the lines approved by President Bush in a 2001 order. [Matt] Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund, one of three pro-life legal organizations that acted for the plaintiffs, told the Register, 'The Bush regulation from 2001 doesn’t exist anymore because it was rescinded by the Obama administration, and it is not resurrected by the preliminary injunction because the order in this case only prohibits funding ESC research under the Obama guidelines from 2009.'"

ChristianNewsWire: "Yesterday, Thomas More Society attorneys filed a lawsuit to compel disclosure of public records that indicate why a doctor in Michigan was not punished for tossing aborted fetuses and patient records in the trash. Robert Fleming, local counsel for the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Monica Migliorino Miller, Ph.D. and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society (CPLS) in Ingram County Circuit Court."

Colleen Carroll Campbell writes at STLToday.com: "After months of unsuccessfully fighting against Senate Bill 793, a new Missouri law that requires clinics to offer ultrasounds and information about fetal development to women seeking abortions, Planned Parenthood officials and their ilk are trying a new tack. They are trading their charge that optional ultrasounds constitute a threat to women's rights — a nonsensical complaint that never got much traction — for the claim that the law rests on religious and philosophical opinions rather than facts."

LifeNews: "Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell appears to agree with the opinion Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued late Friday providing legal guidance for the state Board of Health. Cuccinelli said more limits can be placed on abortion businesses in Virginia when it comes to healthy and safety standards."

Juneau Empire: "The biggest abortion provider in Alaska, Planned Parenthood, has created a website to help teens meet the requirements of the ballot measure approved in Tuesday's election."

"Alliance Defense Fund attorneys secured a consent order Friday from a district court that requires the city of Stayton to allow a man to display pro-life signs on a public street corner."

The Christian Post: "The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is pushing back against fellow African-American Christians who have accused her of hijacking the civil rights movement for her own political agenda – namely to protect the unborn . . . According to the Guttmacher Institute, black women are more likely to have an abortion, at rates three to five times the rate of white women. The high abortion rate, however, has been linked to poverty and women of color tend to come from lower-income households."

Avik Roy writing at National Review's The Agenda: "The NHS, for American conservatives, is the paradigm of how state control of the health care system plays out. Palin’s logic is irrefutable: once the government is spending the money, the government has an obligation to the taxpayer to use those dollars as efficiently. What does that entail? From the government’s point of view, that involves not wasting money on end-of-life care . . . What conservatives are objecting to is the involvement of the state in end-of-life counseling. It comes down to this: if the government is funding health care, and simultaneously funding end-of-life counseling, the government has a conflict of interest . . . It is, at bottom, the same reason we insist on a free, independent press (and free speech in general): when the government controls the media, it has a conflict of interest; i.e., an incentive to promote journalism that is favorable to the government."

LifeNews: "Focus on the Family recently donated to a local pregnancy center the 500th ultrasound machine designed to help women contemplating abortion see an image of their unborn baby. The program is credited with saving as many as 81,000 children from abortions across the United States."