Police probe medical centre attack (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Arson Squad detectives are continuing to investigate links between a firebombing at a medical centre in Mosman Park and anti abortion graffiti scrawled on the building.

Meriter, University of Wisconsin hospitals plan to open abortion clinic (Wisconsin State Journal)
University of Wisconsin Hospital, its doctor group and Meriter Hospital are proposing to open an abortion clinic at their jointly owned Madison Surgery Center near Meriter, which anti-abortion groups say could violate state laws. The clinic, which could open next month, at 1 S. Park St., would primarily offer second-trimester abortions, said UW Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Brunette. Madison's only ...

Asian immigrants use medical technology to satisfy age-old desire: A son. (San Jose Mercury News)
The preference for sons has become a matter of concern in China and India, where the availability of ultrasound and other medical technology since the 1980s to identify the sex of unborn children has produced abnormally high ratios of male babies in some sections of both countries. Now, economists are finding the first evidence that son-selection has immigrated to the United States.

PAISD negotiating with Medical Center for Park Place building (Port Arthur News)
Port Arthur ISD is in negotiations with The Medical Center of Southeast Texas for useof the former Park Place physicians building to be used for ninth graders in the district, Superintendent Johnny Brown announced on Tuesday.

Nation should outlaw abortion (Daily Record)
As Britain increased taxes after the French and Indian War to pay debts, many colonists resisted. They argued this infringed their rights as Englishmen. However, there is something unseemly about crawling, hat-in-hand, before a despotic monarch begging for rights.

U. of W. to give 2nd-trimester abortions (Chicago Sun-Times)
MADISON, Wis. — Anti-abortion groups on Tuesday condemned a University of Wisconsin plan to provide second-trimester abortions at a Madison clinic and questioned whether it was legal.

Obama Eyeing CNN's Gupta For Surgeon General? (NPR)
Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon, is reportedly in talks to become the Obama administration's surgeon general. Gupta worked on health policy as a White House fellow in the 1990s.

Hearing in Tiller case centers on lovers' fight (The Wichita Eagle)
Linda Carter said she and Paul Morrison nearly broke off their affair after a heated argument over Wichita abortion provider George Tiller. Morrison was just months into his new job as Kansas attorney general. Carter was his lover and worked with his predecessor at the Johnson County District Attorney's Office. Carter is a major witness in contentions by Tiller's lawyers that "outrageous ...

11th-hour abortion rule draws 200K protests (Chicago Sun-Times)
An 11th-hour rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is stirring national controversy by allowing people who provide reproductive health services to refuse information or procedures that violate their conscience.

Linda Carter, Phill Kline take stand in Tiller case (The Kansas City Star)
Abortion provider George Tiller may be the one on trial in a Sedgwick County courtroom, but the deeds and misdeeds of Paul Morrison and Phill Kline proved to be the subject of a lengthy — and at times, salacious — legal drama Tuesday.