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• Spouse fights new law over feeding tube | Lawyers for the husband of Terri Schiavo argued in court papers filed Wednesday that the law granting Gov. Jeb Bush the power to reinsert her feeding tube was unconstitutional (The New York Times)
  
  
• Schiavo lawyers challenge 'Terri's law' (Associated Press)
  
  
• Schiavo lawyers challenge 'Terri's Law' (USA Today)
  
  
• What would God say? | Many religious leaders say it is within His will to withhold basic needs from someone with no chance of recovery, such as Terri Schiavo (St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
  
  
• Judicial hearing shifts focus | A judicial-confirmation hearing yesterday turned into the latest battleground over family members who want to remove feeding tubes from their loved ones (The Washington Times)
  
  

Partial-birth abortion ban:

• Bush: USA isn't ready for total abortion ban | Both sides in the debate — and half of Americans surveyed by a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll — read Bush the same way (USA Today)
  
  
• Doctors wary of partial-birth abortion law | Doctors who perform abortions say the bill's broad language covers all D&E procedures—and could block virtually all abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Court restricts movement of abortion foe | Dan Holman supported Paul Hill's abortionist murder (Associated Press)
  
  
• Sides weigh in on proposed abortion rules | Texas health board to discuss pamphlet data, clinic regulations (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Chipping away at abortion | The abortion industry's control of the issue is eroding (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  

More life ethics stories:

• Energized conservatives seek to widen fetal rights | Their agenda for the next year: pass more bills to protect fetuses, stop human cloning and hinder abortions; confirm pending nominees who are sympathetic to the antiabortion movement to federal trial and appellate courts; and, with an eye to potential future Supreme Court vacancies, reelect Bush and expand the slender Republican Senate majority (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Canada's lower house okays cloning ban bill | Bill also sets guidelines on stem cell research (Associated Press)
  
  
• Embryo case woman to appeal | A woman fighting her former boyfriend to save frozen IVF embryos from destruction is taking her legal battle to the Court of Appeal (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• India steps up effort to halt abortions of female fetuses | J. K. Banthia, the Indian census commissioner, estimates that several million fetuses have been aborted in India in the last two decades because they were female (The New York Times)
  
  
• A birth control controversy | In its zeal to bring down the fertility rate, the Rajasthan government plans to implement methods of contraception that have women and the poor as the main target groups (Frontline, India)
  
  
• Preserving the dignity of life | Philosophers, theologians, ethicists and the inevitable lawyers met for three days in Chicago to talk about how each of the three great religions upholds the sanctity and dignity of human life (Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times)
  
  

Adoption and homosexuality:

• Adoption groups opening doors to gays, report says | A majority of agencies (60%) accept applications from lesbians and gay men; 40% have placed children with gay or lesbian parents (USA Today)
  
  
• Also: Survey: Adoption by gays gaining favor (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Most U.S. adoption agencies accept gay parents (Reuters)
  
  
• Family Research Council says gay adoption 'study' is a fraud (Press release)
  
  

Gay marriage:

• Church open to same-sex benefits talk | Bishop says marriage laws cannot change (The Boston Globe)
  
  

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October (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47