Within hours of each other, two federal appeals courts handed down separate decisions that affirmed sharp new limits on abortion and birth control. One on Oct. 31 forced abortion clinics across Texas to close. The other, on Nov. 1, compared contraception to “a grave moral wrong” and sided with businesses that refused to provide it in health care coverage.

In a move that took both sides of the abortion divide by surprise, the 5th District Court of Appeals yesterday reversed most of a lower court’s decision to block an impactful portion of Texas’ new anti-abortion law. From  USA Today:

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A federal appeals court has ruled against Planned Parenthood and other abortionists in Ohio who challenged the state’s law restricting RU-486 abortions to FDA guidelines.
• US News has an article on the “Catholics” for Obama group, which, as previously reported, phoned voters at home and was willing to blatantly lie about President Obama’s record and what Planned Parenthood does.