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• White House at odds with bishops over abortion (AP via Yahoo! News): The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
• Senate Tries To Strike Balance On Abortion Language (NPR): The fight over health care has moved to the Senate, and that means the fight over abortion is there as well. Earlier this month, the House passed legislation that would ban federal funding of abortion, but most Democrats say it went too far. Can the Senate's version find a compromise?
• Flint anti-abortion activists plan to help with teen's lawsuit over alleged forced abortion (The Flint Journal): FLINT, Michigan — Local anti-abortion activists are going to get involved to help the teen who alleges a Flint doctor forced her to have an abortion after she changed her mind about the procedure. “I want to support the attorney and...
• Legislators Tighten Abortion Funds; and More Veterans Are Homeless (New America Media): This week on "Stories From the Ethnic Media": More African-American Veterans are homeless; and legislators tighten abortion funds.
• Lawsuit: Teen alleges Flint doctor forced her to have abortion after she changed her mind (The Flint Journal): WomanCare of FlintFLINT, Michigan — A teenager is accusing a Flint abortion doctor and his assistant of holding her down and covering her mouth as they forcibly terminated her pregnancy after she screamed for them to stop. In a lawsuit...
• Notorious cases: An abortion gone bad (Orange County Register): 1979: Dr. William Waddill, a prominent Huntington Harbour obstetrician, was charged with strangling a fetus delivered after an unsuccessful abortion on an 18-year-old high school student. The frightened young woman had to push her way through throngs...
• White House at odds with bishops over abortion (The Champaign News-Gazette): WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A top Obama administration official on Thursday praised the new Senate health care bill's attempt to find a compromise on abortion coverage – even as an official of the U.S ...
• Abortion rights groups rebound (Park Hills Daily Journal): WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passed a health bill with strict abortion limits.
• White House at odds with bishops over abortion (11 News Houston): The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. WASHINGTON -- The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President ...
• Abortion divides House Dems in health care debate (Park Hills Daily Journal): WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are at an impasse over whether their remake of the nation’s health care system would effectively allow federal funding of abortion.

• Timeline: Brazil: A chronology of key events
• Q&A: US healthcare reform: The BBC News website explains the Obama administration's attempts to reform the American healthcare system.
• Australia mulls Scientology probe: Australia's PM is to consider an inquiry into Scientology after a senator alleges it is a criminal organisation.
• Poison abortion bid doctor jailed: A London doctor is jailed for six years for attempting to poison his pregnant lover in a bid to induce a miscarriage.
• China activist 'in airport limbo': A prominent Chinese dissident says he has been stuck at Tokyo airport for nine days because China will not let him in.
• Hughton ponders Campbell approach: Newcastle boss Chris Hughton ponders a move to sign Sol Campbell after the free agent showed an interest in the Magpies.
• Slight rise in NI abortion rate: Legal abortions carried out in Northern Ireland average almost two per week, the Health Department says.
• Russia to resume ISS construction: After almost a decade-long hiatus, Russia is set to resume construction of her share in the International Space Station with the launch of a new module this week.
• Obama says health vote 'historic': President Barack Obama praises the House's approval of landmark health reforms and expects the Senate to follow suit.
• US House backs healthcare reforms: A landmark bill that could extend healthcare coverage to tens of millions passes in the US lower House after a tense vote.
• Obama in 11th-hour US health plea: Barack Obama makes a last-minute bid to get approval of his health reforms from the US House of Representatives
• Timeline: Uruguay: A chronology of key events
• Republicans win key US elections: Republicans score victories in two key US elections for governor, a year after President Barack Obama was voted in.
• Vietnam sees the funny side of sex: Despite changing attitudes, Vietnamese find it difficult to talk about sex openly and so rely on humour, as the BBC's Ha Mi reports.
• Q&A: The Lisbon Treaty: Key questions answered on the process and meaning of the EU's reform treaty, now ratified by all 27 member states.
• Qualified victory for US Republicans: Jonathan Beale assesses the impact of a string of US elections one year after Barack Obama was elected president.
• Elections test US voters' mood: Elections in New Jersey, Virginia and New York may give a snapshot of how voters feel, a year after Barack Obama was elected president.
• Elections test US voters' mood: Elections in New Jersey, Virginia and New York may give a snapshot of how voters feel, a year after Barack Obama was elected president.
• Wife defends abortion bid doctor: The wife of a London doctor found guilty of attempting to poison his lover to induce an abortion says he is "100% innocent".
• Timeline: Germany: A chronology of key events

• President Obama Again Attacks Stupak Amdt, Backs Pro-Abortion Senate Bill: Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- During an interview with Fox News, President Barack Obama again condemned the Stupak amendment added to the House health care bill to stop abortion funding. Meanwhile, the Obama administration says the president supports the new Senate health care bill that contains massive abortion subsidies.
• Senate's First Health Care Vote Saturday, Pro-Life Democrat Holds Abortion Key: Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson is the most consistent pro-life Democrat in the U.S. Senate and he may hold the key to the outcome of the pro-abortion health care bill. The Senate is expected to cast its first vote Saturday and Nelson indicated today he may join Republicans in filibustering.
• Bioethicist Wesley Smith: Senate Health Care Bill is Assisted Suicide Friendly: Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith says the new Senate health care reform bill contains another problem apart form abortion funding. The new measure is friendly to assisted suicide in that it contains language supporting physicians who don't want to kill their patients but promotes the practice nonetheless.
• Senate Confirms David Hamilton, Obama's First Pro-Abortion Judicial Nominee: Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Senate voted today 59-39 to confirm a pro-abortion federal judge President Barack Obama appointed to become a new appeals court justice. David Hamilton, of Indiana, is the first pro-abortion judge Obama selected, but he was held up for months because of his extreme views.
• UNFPA Report Uses Popular Green-Environment Campaign to Promote Abortion: New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual State of the World Population Report yesterday, linking efforts to promote "sustainable development" and affect "climate change" to its "reproductive rights" agenda.
• Abortion Advocates NARAL, Boxer, DeGette Love New Harry Reid Health Care Bill: Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- NARAL and Senator Barbara Boxer, the leader of the pro-abortion activist contingent in the Senate, have issued statements today saying they love the new health care bill Harry Reid introduced yesterday. That pits abortion proponents against pro-life advocates who are squarely against the bill.