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Court to hear Oregon assisted suicide case:

• Justices accept Oregon case weighing assisted suicide | The action will likely reopen a debate over whether doctors should be able to help terminally ill patients end their lives (The New York Times)
• Justices to hear challenge to Oregon assisted-suicide law (The Washington Post)
• Justices to review Oregon's right-to-die law (Los Angeles Times)
• Prescription for chaos | Understanding the lethal Oregon case that's hitting the Supreme Court (Wesley J. Smith, National Review Online)

Terri Schiavo:

• Judge delays feeding tube removal | A circuit court judge on Tuesday delayed removal of a brain-damaged woman's feeding tube for at least another day, allowing her parents to file more legal motions in their fight to keep her alive against her husband's wishes (The New York Times)
• Another hearing set in right-to-die case | One of the longest-running and most contentious right-to-die cases in U.S. history ricocheted between Florida courts on Tuesday as protesters gathered in suburban Tampa to pray that a severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube would not be removed. (The Washington Post)
• Right-to-die case hinges on appeals court | Michael Schiavo could have doctors take out the feeding tube from his wife, Terri Schiavo, as early as Tuesday, depending on what action the 2nd District Court of Appeals takes on a request for an emergency stay by her parents (Associated Press)

Life ethics:

• UN call for ban on all cloning is attacked | The Royal Society condemned a United Nations call for a ban on all forms of human cloning (The Telegraph, London)
• An Illinois judge declares that frozen embryos are people: What difference does it make? | Abortion is perhaps permissible even if the embryo is a person (Sherry F. Colb, FindLaw.com)
• Death With Dignity Act on trial | The more conservative justices who generally support the use of traditional morality in law—such as banning suicide—are also those who have supported states' rights in the face of federal encroachment (UPI)
• Suits filed to stop stem cell institute | Politically conservative public interest groups filed lawsuits Tuesday seeking to invalidate the $3 billion stem cell research funding institution California voters approved in November (Associated Press)
• The disease of desperation | While the government heartlessly enforces its ban on stem-cell research, hopeless Americans are emptying their bank accounts for unproven therapies (Patti Davis, Newsweek)

Abortion:

• Court rejects challenge to abortion ruling | The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to its landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion by the woman once known as "Jane Roe," who was at the center of the historic case (Associated Press)
• Mitt Romney's choice | Has this 2008 presidential possibility been holding back on what are genuine pro-life views? (W. James Antle III, The American Spectator)
• Conn. officials shelve abortion proposal | Officials declined Tuesday to take action on a proposal to declare the city an abortion-free zone, a measure that would have banned the procedure in Waterbury (Associated Press)
• Pro-choice groups giving up too much? | Perhaps pro-choice politicians instead should revive a now largely forgotten abortion rights credo of the Roe era: every child a wanted child (David J. Garrow, The Christian Science Monitor)

Religion & politics:

• Christian leader challenges political status quo | Evangelical leader Jim Wallis challenged the polarized political status quo Monday night and preached a new way to about 600 of his cheering supporters a faith-infused political movement that can "move mountains" (Pasadena Star-News, Ca.)

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