SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court has refused to block a new law requiring religiously sponsored antiabortion clinics known as "crisis pregnancy centers'' to notify patients that the state makes reproductive health services, including abortion, available at little or no cost.The clinics argued that the law violates their freedom of speech. The state-mandated notices are "the equivalent of a referral for abortion,'' attorney Francis Manion of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative legal organization, said in a court filing...
