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FORT WAYNE – A federal rule requiring religious organizations to pay the full cost of birth control, possible abortion-causing drugs and sterilization under their employees’ health plans has aroused local ire, including the local Catholic church’s refusal to comply. On Sunday, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Roman Catholic Diocese will make the church’s case against proposed provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the people in the pews with a statement that will be read at Masses. He issued a statement Thursday. District leaders of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod are expected to discuss the...

Board: Obamacare Should Force Coverage of Birth Control, Abortion Drugs Washington, DC -- A new report issued by the influential Institute of Medicine today recommended to the Obama administration that it force insurance companies to pay for birth control under the Obamacare government-run health care program. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/07/19/board-obamacare-should-force-coverage-of-birth-control-abortion-drugs/

Associated Press A doctor recently counseled a patient about abortion in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The government has issued new regulations about abortions. MOSCOW, Aug. 23 — Hesitantly and with little public debate, Russia has increased its restrictions on abortion for the first time in nearly half a century. Russia's abortion regulations remain permissive — there are still no limits on abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy — but the new restrictions appear to reflect the first stirrings of a wider debate here over the morality of abortion, as well as the effect abortions are having on women's health and...

<p>The law has divided pro-life and pro-family groups. Some pro-family groups oppose welfare and extra public funding for welfare moms, while pro-life groups say the family caps have been proven to encourage poor women to have abortions.</p> <p>The court, in a 7-0 decision, upheld the family caps.</p>