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• More heat than light on abortion | Federal courts may well strike down the new law against such late-term abortions as unconstitutional. The sooner, the better (Editorial, The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass.)
  
  
• Partial birth ban wailers | Faced with the undeniable reality, some abortion rights advocates are desperately trying to change the subject (Michael Fumento, The Washington Times)
  
  

Euthanasia:

• Bush backs decision on disabled woman | "I believe my brother made the right decision," President Bush said in response to a reporter's question at a wide-ranging news conference (Associated Press)
  
  
• Husband rips in-laws in right-to-die case | Schiavo said his relationship with the Schindlers soured after he was awarded a 1993 medical malpractice claim of about $1 million (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Interview with Michael Schiavo | A full transcript (Larry King Live, CNN)
  
  
• Also: Schindler family attorney responds to Michael Schiavo | A transcript (On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Fox News)
  
  
• Who has the right to die? | Gov. Jeb Bush made headlines by intervening to keep Terri Schiavo alive. But behind the controversy lies the story of a family's tragic disintigration (Newsweek)
  
  
• A family at war | More finger-pointing in the Terri Schiavo right to die case (Time)
  
  
• Gov. Bush's Schiavo intervention boosts support from religious right | Political analysts say that this week's public battle in the Florida Legislature over Schiavo's fate and Bush's high-profile involvement reach beyond one man's conviction into the realm of state and presidential politics (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• In feeding-tube case, many neurologists back courts | Debate continues over Schiavo's "persistent vegetative state" (The New York Times)
  
  
• It may be a family matter, but just try to define family | The life of Terri Schiavo is at its core a story about the families people choose versus those they are born into. Who has the more valid claim to someone's destiny? (The New York Times)
  
  
• 'My father wasn't there' | The victims of strokes can be terrible puzzles, a torture to families, and sometimes an ordeal for the courts (The New York Times)
  
  
• Play doctor—and judge | The heart-breaking case of Terry Schiavo in Florida presents even an even starker case of lawmakers usurping the medical and judicial function (Editorial, The Washington Post)
  
  
• A right to live, a right to die | Striving for faith, hope and charity (Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Inquiry opened into France mercy killing | One month after the highly publicized mercy killing of a severely disabled young man, prosecutors opened a legal inquiry targeting his mother and doctor (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'This is not a life. I can lead it no more' | Argument rages across Europe in wake of French mercy killing (The Guardian, London)
  
  

Minister says, "do better or get out":

• You must do better, minister tells flock | In a rallying call to his 600 members, only a third of whom regularly attend services, the Rev Daniel Hawthorn has suggested that if they are not prepared to do better they may have to leave the church (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Minister asks congregation to pay'n'pray | Anger over demands church members dig deeper and worship more often (Sunday Herald, Glasgow, Scotland)
  
  
• No pay, no pray ultimatum given to churchgoers | A Church of Scotland minister has told his congregation to pray more often and increase their donations to the collection tray or consider leaving the Kirk (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  

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