A few articles that have interested me this week:

• Some of you may remember the Gideons arrested for handing out Bibles outside a Florida public school -- the charges have finally been dismissed.

• According to some reports, every year nearly five million girls are aborted in India. If you didn't know this, I highly recommend reading this quick article to familiarize yourself with the phenomenen.

• I'd never heard of the Vitae Caring Foundation before reading this article, but it sounds like they're doing some wonderful work in the pro-life arena. This is my good news article of the day because of the true story related about halfway through.

• A family in Florida has successfully sued a geneticist for the "rotten advice" that led them to continue with the pregnancy of a second child born with a debilitating illness. The suit was for "wrongful birth" and they were awarded $23.5 million dollars. This bothers me for a number of reasons, but the top two have to do with the idea that there could be a "wrongful birth" and that someone could sue a doctor for negligence because he didn't advise an abortion.

• I've had this article sitting on my desktop for a couple days, trying to decide whether to link to it or not because of the violence described. It's about a woman in London who was brutalized by her father and other male family "friends" before they committed the "honor" killing called for by the religion of peace when a woman "dishonors" her family. In this instance, the dishonor was a young woman leaving her forced marriage for another man.

• And wrapping things up, the tragedy we're more concerned about in America, Starbucks is raising prices .09 cents.