Mercury News (AP): "The daylong religious event titled, 'The Call to Conscience,' was led by Lou Engle as well as other pastors and speakers to protest gay marriage, pornography and abortion. Many of those attending slapped red 'Life' stickers over their shirts and set up blankets and folding chairs facing a large stage with banners that read: 'Only One Hope God.'"

"A federal judge has denied a request by the Obama administration to allow it to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research while it defends President Barack Obama's executive order from a lawsuit alleging it violates federal law . . . "

Greeley Tribune: "The bad news for Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and their allies is that personhood proponents recently turned in more than 126,000 signatures to put the measure back on the ballot, this time as Amendment 62. Even worse for abortion proponents, since beginning in Colorado in 2008, 40 states have started personhood drives. Personhood isn't just an amendment; it's a movement."

Journal-Sentinel: "A liberal advocacy group is suing Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth, saying he did not produce an e-mail he was required to release under the state's open records law. One Wisconsin Now posted a copy of the lawsuit Tuesday that it was filing against Southworth, who drew criticism this spring when he told area schools teachers could be criminally prosecuted if they followed the state's new sex education curriculum."

LifeNews: "The Planned Parenthood abortion business has temporarily closed its abortion center in Columbia. That leaves just two functioning abortion businesses in Missouri, with another Planned Parenthood abortion center in St. Louis and the Women’s Care Gynecology abortion clinic in Bridgeton, a suburb near the airport."

Miami Herald: "South Carolina voters who support abortion rights have no choice in November's gubernatorial election. For the first time in recent history both the Democratic and Republican nominees for governor are anti-choice."

Robert P. George, Yuval Levin, and Matthew J. Franck writing at National Review Online: "[I]t is the president who fails to be open to the inconvenient truth about the human embryo, namely, that from the single-cell stage of development onward, the human embryo is a distinct, determinate, self-directing, integrated human organism — a living member of the human species who, if given a suitable environment, will move along the seamless trajectory of biological development toward maturity. At the so-called 'blastocyst stage,' when the embryo might be destroyed to derive embryonic stem cells, he or she is already a living individuated organism . . . Is our humanity alone enough to merit protection and regard, or are we required to prove we have some other set of qualities or capacities to qualify for respect and protection?"

Mark Crutcher writing at CNSNews: "With a mountain of documentation, Maafa 21, is proving to audiences all across America that the real motivation behind the legalization of abortion was eugenics and racial genocide. In just over two hours, the documentary shows that the legalization of abortion was part of a campaign that had been created, promoted, and financed by a small cartel of ultra-wealthy elitists."

The Tech (MIT): "Many stem cell researchers have been left uncertain about their own future and the future of their field as they wait for a federal judge to decide whether to allow the NIH to fund human embryonic stem cell research, within and without of its walls . . . According to an article in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, Sherley and Deisher were 'recruited separately' by lawyers looking to challenge the federal policy. They had never met until last week, the Journal said . . . Gibson & Dunn referred inquiries to the Alliance Defense Fund. The Alliance Defense Fund and Human Life Advocates have both not returned inquiries."

ChristianNewsWire: "Advocates International (AI), part of the public interest legal team along with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (GD&C) who brought the case before the court more than a year ago, seeks to maintain the preliminary injunction issued by the United States District Court of the District of Columbia enjoining HHS and NIH from unlawfully expending taxpayer funds on research involving the destruction of living human embryos."

LifeNews: "The Louisiana health department has closed the Hope Medical Group for Women abortion business in Shreveport."

LifeNews: "Abortion practitioners who have recently come under fire from state health departments for violating health and safety codes have an odd similarity. They both were found, after investigations of their abortion centers, to have kept the bodies of dead babies from abortions stored in jars."

LifeNews: "With the national fortunes of Democrats fading in the November elections thanks to President Barack Obama's poor performance and an American public opposed to the pro-abortion, government-run health care bill Congress approved, some of the 34 who voted against the measure are running from it."

Wibren Van der Burg, Legislation on Human Embryos: From Status Theories to Value Theories (August 30, 2010). Erasmus Working Paper Series on Jurisprudence and Socio-legal Studies No. 10-03. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1668407 "In this paper I argue that we should separate the legal-political debate on embryos from the ethical debate, and focus on the functions of legislation rather than on the moral status of the embryo. The two major theoretical positions in the moral and legal debates are a rights theory and an interests theory. Each of these two theories may be connected to one of the two classical functions of the law: the protective function and the instrumental function. Each of these theories may shed light on some dimensions of embryo legislation; each, however, is also seriously inadequate in some respects. These inadequacies may, at first sight, be avoided in an intermediate position: the idea of a 'growing protectability' or growing status of the embryo. However, from a legal point of view, this is not an adequate solution at all, because the lack of theoretical foundation for this position makes it almost impossible to implement it and to elaborate it in an unambiguous legal theory."

LifeSiteNews: "As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) prepares to receive a report on the controversial funding practices of their anti-poverty arm, one diocese has proposed a plan to cut off the group's shadier associations. The diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph also suggested in a Monday post on its Catholic Key blog that its plan to reform the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which it has implemented on a local level, could be used as a template for revamping national CCHD operations . . ."

LifeNews: "The regional affiliate of Planned Parenthood where teenager Holly Patterson died from using the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug first lost its affiliation with Planned Parenthood in early August. Now, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate faces an audit form the criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service."

LifeNews: "The troubled abortion business Steven Chase Brigham runs in four states got more bad news as two of the abortion practitioners he employees have lost their medical licenses. The Maryland medical licenses of George Shepard, Jr., of Delaware and Nicola I. Riley of Utah, were suspended on Tuesday."

LifeSiteNews: "Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion medical practitioners this week kicked off a campaign to snuff out the Colorado Personhood initiative, which aims to extend personhood to all human beings from the beginning of their biological development, as it heads to voters in November."

Peter J. Boyer writing at The New Yorker: "The objection to [geneticist Francis Collins] was his faith—or, at least, the ardency of it. Collins is a believing Christian, which places him in the minority among his peers in the National Academy of Science . . . The President had found not only a man who reflected his own view of the harmony between science and faith but an evangelical Christian who hoped that the government’s expansion of embryonic-stem-cell research might bring the culture war over science to a quiet end. On August 23rd, however, Judge Royce C. Lamberth, of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, halted federal spending for embryonic-stem-cell research, putting hundreds of research projects in limbo and plunging the N.I.H. back into a newly contentious national debate."

The Denver Daily News: "Opponents and proponents of a ballot initiative that aims to ban abortion in Colorado clashed at the Capitol yesterday, exchanging words of passion over the controversial initiative. Opponents had scheduled a campaign kick off at the Capitol to fight the Amendment 62 initiative. But proponents crashed the rally, arguing that their opposition is 'relying on scare tactics to frighten voters.'" Ballotpedia: Colorado Fetal Personhood, Amendment 62 (2010)