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• Partial-birth abortions: Michigan bill legally defines birth | According to the bill, a person is considered legally born when any part of a fetus is expelled from a woman's body (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
  
  
• After some debate, Florida House backs limited ban on cloning | But it made an exception for some medical stem cell research (The Miami Herald)

Birth control:

• Anti-birth control bill vetoed | Catholic Church sought exclusion for employees (Arizona Daily Star)
  
  
• Women on the pill 'still fall pregnant' | Two thirds of France's unplanned pregnancies were among women using contraceptives (The Daily Telegraph, London)

Sexual ethics:

• Neb. same-sex marriage ban challenged | Federal court lawsuit says the measure violates the rights of gay couples (Associated Press)
  
  
• Equality law must bind church, say gay Christians | Lobby British government against attempts by the Church of England to obtain exemption from planned anti-discrimination employment regulations (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Campaign targets city's gay-rights vote | Ohio conservatives wage an all-out crusade in Kentucky to stop a proposed law to protect homosexuals from discrimination (Los Angeles Times)

Education:

• D.C. mayor endorses vouchers for schools | Program pushed by Education Secretary Rod Paige, who has met resistance on the issue from D.C. officials (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Also: D.C. mayor backs vouchers | Williams reverses his position on a key GOP initiative after talks (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Christian group places anti-religious discrimination ads | Ads in college newspapers offer discrimination victims legal help (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Legal alliance advertising to quell anti-Christian discrimination | Alliance Defense Fund is urging students to report incidents of "anti-Christian bigotry" on their campus (The Crimson White, University of Alabama)
  
  
• Shifting sand? | Calvin College offers a top-notch liberal arts education, but is it slipping its biblical moorings? (World)
  
  
• Church history scholar to lead Brite Divinity School | D. Newell Williams was professor of church history at Christian Theological Seminary (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)

Missions and ministries:

• Missionaries bring aid, controversy to Kashmir | The influx of Christian evangelists complicates an already volatile religious equation, critics say (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Faith & works | Christians aid Muslims outside the glare of Western journalists bent on uncovering a new crusade. In Jordan, Red Crescent officials clearly don't want Christians credited for helping those displaced by the war in Iraq. That's just fine by the relief workers. The idea is for someone else to get the credit, anyway (World)
  
  
• Enduring mercy at The Med | Thirty years ago, 11 Presbyterian women set out to follow Jesus on a Great Commission (David Waters, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
  
  
• Benny Hinn encourages Christian tourism to Israel | "Anyone who doesn't support Israel is not a true Christian," says faith healer (The Jerusalem Post)

Money and business:

• God at the office | More businesses make room for religion (Times Union, Albany, NY)
  
  
• Shopping mad: Why the ban enrages the rationalists | The secularist objection to the Easter trading ban was only a smokescreen (Ray Cassin, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Ex-sex shop faces woes as Christian store | A man who converted his sex toy shop to a Christian bookstore said sales are so slow he was able to stock his shelves only after receiving $80,000 worth of donated religious goods (Associated Press)
  
  

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