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Oklahoma's Center for Reproductive Rights on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to stop a law the group's lawyers say unfairly targets physicians and medical facilities that provide abortions. The law goes into effect Nov. 1 and lawyers for the group say it mainly sets an array of rules against providing abortions to minors and includes unconstitutional provisions that permit searches without a warrant of abortion providers. (Brandes, 9/25)

In a battle over patient privacy and public records, an anti-abortion group wants the 911 transcripts and ambulance reports from the St. Louis Fire Department’s emergency calls to the Planned Parenthood clinic in the Central West End. Deborah Myers of Operation Rescue, based in Wichita, Kan., sued the fire department last year seeking the reports, citing the Missouri Sunshine Law that governs access to public records. The group commonly uses 911 call records on abortion clinics nationwide to look for information that might bolster complaints they file with state health departments. (Bernhard, 9/28)

Supreme Court justices will meet behind closed doors Monday to start the process of deciding which cases to take up this term, with all eyes on a challenge to a Texas abortion law that could roil the presidential race just months before voters go to the polls.The case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, centers on a series of far-reaching restrictions on Texas abortion providers and clinics, which led to the closure of about half of the state’s abortion facilities. It promises to be the most significant abortion case in at least two decades, and could inject divisive social issues into the presidential race at a key moment (Haberkorn, 9/27)