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 Life News After nationwide criticism, a Catholic hospital in Colorado has reversed course and will no longer argue in court in response to a lawsuit filed against it that an unborn child is not a person worthy of legal protection. Attorneys for St. Thomas More Hospital, which is sponsored by Catholic Health Initiatives, cited the statute in legal proceedings in the tragic case of Lori Stodghill and her twin unborn sons, who died at the Cañon City hospital on New Year's Day of 2006. The law does not consider unborn children to be persons, which contradicts the moral teachings of the Church. The Catholic bishops of Colorado----Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver, Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs, and Bishop Fernando Isern of Pueblo----met last week to discuss the case with CHI senior leadership after announcing they would review the circumstances of the case.
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 LifeSiteNews Planned Parenthood is not only facing an uphill battle in state legislatures seeking to deprive the organization of taxpayer dollars, it is also receiving a distinctly chilly welcome at some university campuses. "So many people rejected us. They acted grossed out.
They didn't want to talk about it at all," said Jordan Bean, a leader of Vox, the college chapter of Planned Parenthood. Bean handed out condoms at Marshall University, where she is a senior, but said she had few takers. "We get a lot of backlash on campus, and people approach us with questions that are hard to answer," she told The Charleston Gazette. At least nine other states have no chapter of Vox on any campus.
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|  Citizen Link A federal appeals court Friday temporarily halted a government mandate requiring a Minnesota manufacturing business to offer potential abortion-inducing drugs in employee health plans. The preliminary injunction overturns a lower court's action earlier this month. Annex Medical, Inc., a Catholic-run company in Minnetonka, filed the lawsuit in November. Owner Stuart Lind said the mandate prevents him from conducting business "in a way that is pleasing to God." The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order in Annex v. Sebelius came on the same day that the Obama administration announced a proposal explaining how some "religious" employers can receive an accommodation. This would not include businesses like Annex, or other for-profits, such as Hobby Lobby and Tyndale House Publishers, challenging the mandate.
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