Gazette.net: "An anti-abortion pregnancy center has sued Montgomery County over a law requiring it to post information about the care it provides . . . Centro Tepeyac Women's Center in Silver Spring says the law is unconstitutional, said [Casey Mattox], the center's lead attorney. Mattox, with the Alliance Defense Fund, said the county law restricts freedom of speech."

AP: "Sixteen percent of U.S. married women say they use the pill. That compares to 29 percent in the United Kingdom and more than 40 percent in the Netherlands and France."

Thaddeus Mason Pope, Reuniting Human Rights and Bioethics to Address End-of-Life Medical Futility Disputes (May 24, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1615015 "The fields of bioethics and human rights should be reunited and harmonized. Each can benefit from the other. Human rights can supply a language and framework to articulate arguments mooted and invisible in bioethics vocabulary. Bioethics has, for too long, focused on a too-narrow range of high-technology issues affecting few people. Human rights’ focus on globalization and public health can be used to beneficially reorient bioethics to address broader issues. Similarly, bioethics can benefit human rights. While end-of-life issues have been thoroughly examined in the bioethics world, they have just started coming onto the human rights agenda. Human rights law can gain a rich vocabulary and conceptual toolkit from bioethics."

LifeSiteNews: "Two school officials have been suspended at a Norfolk, VA elementary school in connection with the distribution of 4-inch-long baby models accompanied by a card describing a child's growth in the womb . . . Oakwood spokeswoman Elizabeth Thiel Mather told the paper Thursday that the baby figurines were not authorized by the division as instructional materials."

ADF Attorney Matt Bowman appeared on The Jody Hice Show to discuss the recently-passed health care bill and its violations of the sanctity of life. | MP3 – 15:42 mins

WTSP: "Gov. Charlie Crist is still waiting for leaders of the Florida House to send him a controversial bill that would require women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound before the procedure." | HB-1143 | For more on the bill, see this ADF Alliance Alert compound tag: http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/state-florida+topic-abortion+topic-legislation/

LifeSiteNews: "Striking down a motion to dismiss, Judge Neal W. Cerne of Dupage County Court has ruled that a lawsuit may go forward alleging that a Planned Parenthood mega-center violates city zoning laws and that the zoning board blatantly ignored the violation."

"In a vote of 33-15, the Senate voted to override Gov. Brad Henry's veto of House Bill 3284. A similar veto override measure passed the House on Monday in a vote 84-13. The measure goes into effect Nov. 1."

WCNC.com: "About 100 activists gathered Tuesday at the General Assembly to urge lawmakers to approve a license plate bearing the slogan 'Choose Life.' About half the states in the country have them."

" . . . senators may attempt to override the governor’s veto of an enhanced abortion statistics reporting law by Tuesday afternoon . . . Late Monday afternoon, the Oklahoma House of Representatives overwhelmingly overruled Henry's third veto . . . "

USA Today: "Meanwhile, an anti-abortion group, Americans United for Life, is calling Kagan's record on abortion "problematic." The group contends it has found evidence that leads it to believe she would issue "decisions like Roe v. Wade," the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal nationwide . . . "

U.S. News & World Report: "One of the nation's most prominent anti-abortion groups is seeking a delay in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in order to provide the Clinton library time to find and make public her key writings while a White House lawyer and later domestic policy aide."

LifeSiteNews: "The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has threatened legal action against a Texas sheriff, claiming he violated an inmate's constitutional 'right' to an abortion by refusing to transport her to an abortion clinic. Sheriff Larry Fowler, however, said he would not use taxpayer funds to facilitate the deed . . . "

Mercury News: "Sen. Barbara Boxer, a polarizing Democrat whose approval ratings rarely have topped 50 percent even in the best of times. But if the opportunity appears ripe for a Republican takeover of a seat Boxer has held for almost two decades, less clear is which GOP candidate has the best chance of pulling it off. Is it former congressman Tom Campbell, whose stance favoring abortion rights would deprive Boxer of an issue she's used to batter past GOP opponents? Or would Carly Fiorina — the first female after a succession of male opponents that Boxer has dismantled — give the senator the biggest fits? And then there's conservative state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, a favorite of party activists, who may be best able to harness 'tea party' anger at Washington . . . "

NaplesNews.com: "The ambulance arrived at 12:50 p.m. and left with a patient on board a few minutes later, while a dozen abortion opponents were protesting on the sidewalk nearby . . . "

"The November election will offer voters a stark choice on volatile social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, two legislative leaders agreed Friday . . . "

LifeNews: "The Senate voted 32-11 to approve House Bill 3284, dubbed the 'Statistical Abortion Reporting Act' and the House approved it on an equally lopsided 88-8 margin. HB 3284 provides for the reporting of abortions performed in Oklahoma, the reasons abortions are sought, and the complications that result . . . "

Irish Central: "A leading bioethicist has asked if women are safe in Catholic hospitals after an Irish nun was excommunicated for approving an abortion to save the life of a mother." | Resources: Statements from the Diocese of Phoenix and St. Joseph's | Info page from The Catholic Sun | Diocesan Q&A on the case | Related: Phoenix Catholic hospital defends abortion that took place there; bishop warns of excommunication | Phoenix Bishop Says Nun is Automatically Excommunicated for Rubberstamping Hospital Abortion

Archdiocese of Seattle: "The Assisted Suicide U.S./Canadian “Push Back” Seminar will be held Saturday, June 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel near Sea-Tac Airport, 18118 International Blvd., Seattle. The seminar is aimed at sharing information and developing strategies for effectively responding to the legalization of assisted suicide in Washington state and Oregon and preventing the spread of legalized assisted suicide to other areas . . . Speakers: . . . [Matt Bowman], Attorney, Alliance Defense Fund. Topic: Montana court decision: What does it mean? How can we fight it?"

The Christian Institute: "The US biologist who created the world’s first synthetic cell has not created life, according to scientists . . . David Baltimore, a geneticist at California Institute of Technology, warned: 'To my mind Craig has somewhat overplayed the importance of this'. He added: 'He has not created life, only mimicked it'."