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No commentary today, but there are many fascinating stories below. Check them out.

Birth control pills:

• Study adds to morning-after pill debate | Teenagers who have emergency "morning-after" birth control pills at home are no more likely than other young people to have unprotected sex, a study found (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pharmacist refuses to refill birth control | Area woman denied pill in what some fear is becoming trend (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Pharmacists' right to refuse challenged | Druggist group defends denying contraceptives on moral grounds (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Contraceptives available, Amarillo pharmacists say | Birth-control requests to be honored over moral concerns (Amarillo Globe-News, Tex.)
  
  

Unborn victims of violence:

• Bush to sign fetus rights bill | President Bush, eager to hand another victory to the social conservatives who make up his most loyal base of political support, decided on an elaborate ceremony to sign into law legislation expanding legal rights of the unborn (Associated Press)
  
  
• A tough loss for left in abortion war | When women's rights and prochoice groups opposed the law on the grounds that it would undermine the right to abortion (even though abortion is specifically exempted by the bill), their stance not only came across as callous but made them look like extreme ideological zealots (Cathy Young, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Face the fetus | It's time for abortion rights advocates to stop denying reality (William Saletan, Slate)
  
  

Euthanasia:

• 'Unjust' shouts Lesley Martin after guilty verdict | In dramatic scenes inside the High Court at Wanganui, Martin, 40, burst into tears and there were loud gasps after a jury found her guilty of one charge, using a morphine overdose on her mother, Joy, and not guilty of the second charge, attempted murder by suffocating her with a pillow (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• Brown hopes to resubmit euthanasia bill | The architect of legislation that would allow mercy killings said today he believed Lesley Martin should be discharged without conviction (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• Euthanasia advocate faces jail for trying to kill mother | The euthanasia debate was reiginited yesterday when a New Zealand woman who gave a morphine overdose to her terminally ill mother was convicted of attempted murder (The Independent, London)
  
  
• NZ euthanasia advocate faces jail | New Zealand's best known campaigner for voluntary euthanasia has been found guilty of the attempted murder of her terminally ill mother (BBC)
  
  

Abortion:

• Judge asks doctor if fetus can feel pain | A doctor who performs abortions found himself quizzed by a federal judge about whether a fetus feels pain during a controversial abortion procedure and if the physician worries about that possibility (Associated Press)
  
  
• Teen seeks court OK to distribute antiabortion material at school | An eighth-grade girl wants a federal judge to decide whether she may distribute anti-abortion materials on school grounds after she says the Lee County School District barred her from doing so last year (Bonita Banner, Fla.)
  
  
• Little deaths, great shame | There is no shame in pregnancy, only in the way women have often been treated. But the ultimate shame is in a society that finds solutions to the abortion dilemma too hard to solve (James Murray, The Australian)
  
  

Human rights:

• Morality for sale | The Commission on Human Rights no longer can be counted on to "name and shame" even the most egregious violators (Joseph Loconte, The New York Times)
  
  
• They dream of survival | In post-Hussein Iraq, many long-repressed dreams have resurfaced. For Assyrians, who have endured centuries of war and persecution, the goal is simple (Chicago Tribune)
  
  

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