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Catholic hospitals no exempt on law requiring morning-after pill distribution:

• Romney says no hospitals are exempt from pill law | He reverses stand on Plan B (The Boston Globe)
• Mass. changes hospital contraception rules | Gov. Mitt Romney abandoned plans Thursday to exempt Roman Catholic and other private hospitals from a new law requiring them to dispense emergency contraception to rape victims (Associated Press)
• Healey raps loophole on Plan B pill | Lieutenant governor backs wider access to contraceptive (The Boston Globe)
• Also: Critics say Romney undermining emergency contraception law (Associated Press)
• A Plan B mistake | There should be no exceptions for Catholic hospitals that oppose emergency contraception (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
• Private hospitals exempt on pill law | State accepts objections to morning-after drug (The Boston Globe)
• Mass. to exempt some from contraception law | The state's health commissioner plans to allow Roman Catholic and other private hospitals to be exempt from a new law making the "morning-after" pill available to rape victims, a decision likely to trigger a legal challenge (Associated Press)

Pharmacists file complaint over firing:

• Walgreens workers claim religious bias | Pharmacists file complaint with EEOC (Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.)
• Discipline of pharmacists spark complaint | Walgreen Co. engaged in religious discrimination by "effectively firing" three Illinois pharmacists who refused to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception, a public-interest group alleged Wednesday (Associated Press)
• Plan B: Women's rights and pharmacists' scruples | A woman who needs the Plan B emergency contraceptive should be able to get the drug without a lecture or a snide look from a disapproving pharmacist (Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Life ethics:

• Damages claim for abortion twin | A mother is hoping to win £250,000 in compensation after her twin daughter survived an abortion four years ago (BBC)
• Court hears "right to die" case of battered girl | A man facing a possible murder charge for beating his stepdaughter so badly she is in a permanent vegetative state asked Massachussetts' top court on Tuesday to keep her alive in a case that highlights the divisive "right to die" issue in America (Reuters)
• Severely ill girl defies doctors for first visit home | Charlotte Wyatt, the two-year-old girl doctors said they would not resuscitate in a life-threatening situation, has been allowed home for the first time (The Telegraph, London)

Michael Schiavo:

• Michael Schiavo takes on the religious right | Terri Schiavo's husband starts a PAC devoted to defeating the Bible-thumping politicians who turned his comatose wife into a football (Salon.com)
• Terri Schiavo's widower takes aim at politicians | Michael Schiavo said in a news release that the group, TerriPAC, would raise money to campaign against members of Congress, mostly Republicans, who drafted and voted for legislation to intervene in the case (Reuters)

Samuel Alito:

• Alito ads stirring little interest | Opponents and supporters of the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. have bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of TV and radio ads, but senators in battleground states say their constituents aren't listening (The Washington Times)
• Muddy waters | Alito vs. Alito on abortion (Ryan Lizza, The New Republic)
• Democratic doublespeak | In Washington, Democrats are challenging the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court because he opposes abortion. In Pennsylvania, those same Democrats are working to help Robert P. Casey Jr. topple Republican Senator Rick Santorum—because Casey opposes abortion (Joan Vennochi, The Boston Globe)

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