A new Oregon state law requiring health insurance plans that cover prescription drugs to include contraception is now in effect (via The Oregonian).  

Seattle Post-Intelligencer guest columnists take a tongue-in-cheek look at the low points of Washington's health care system, with pharmacy refusals being high on their list.

Mike Huckabee courts the `values-voters' with a new television ad emphasizing his anti-abortion stance in which he uses the word "values" four times during the 30-second spot (via The New York Times).  
However voters may want to reevaluate Huckabee's values, given that in 2006 he accepted $52,000 in speaking fees from groups that support issues he claims to oppose, including human embryonic stem cell research and expanded access to emergency contraception (via Politico).

RH Reality Check recaps Bush's anti-choice appointees, starting with a call to oppose the recent nomination of Richard Honaker for a lifetime job as a federal judge.  Honaker authored a 1991 bill which would have outlawed most abortions, and has said that abortion is "wrong, and no one should have the right to do what is wrong".