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(SRN NEWS) – The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.  Texas has sued a New York doctor over a prescription to a Texas resident.  It could become the first test of a shield law that New York and some other Democratic-controlled states have passed to protect abortion doctors.  There’s also a lawsuit aimed at rolling back federal approval for one of the most common abortifacients.  And several states are considering laws to make abortion drugs more difficult to obtain in general. 

Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited demonstrations outside abortion clinics after pro-life activists sued on free-speech grounds. The city council has quietly amended the ordinance to exclude constitutionally protected activities and agreed to pay the plaintiffs’ legal fees.  Brian Gibson, chief executive officer of Pro-Life Action Ministries, says the decision amounts to an admission by the city that the law violated the First Amendment.  The Thomas More Society and allied groups are litigating similar restrictions nationwide.

Conservators have uncovered eight angels in a historic Boston church that played a pivotal role in the Revolutionary War.  The angels were painted in the early 1700’s but covered over in 1912 as part of a renovation of the Old North Church.  Inspired by research showing the existence of at least 20 angels, conservators for the past four months have been removing the white paint that covered eight of them on the balcony’s arches in the church sanctuary.  Old North Church is best known for helping warn of the British army’s approach in 1775.

A report on campus anti-Semitism by the House of Representatives recommends cutting government funding to universities that boycott Israel.  The report details the findings of seven congressional committees and paints a dire picture of anti-Semitism in the United States.  In the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel last fall, pro-Palestinian protesters began harassing and intimidating Jewish students at schools all across the country.  Amongst the most prominent were Harvard, MIT, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA.

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