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Same-sex marriage in Canada:

• Canadian PM raps opponents over gay marriage bill | Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on Wednesday rapped opponents of a draft law to legalize gay marriage, saying they were wrongly trying to convince voters the measure could easily be overturned in the future (Reuters)
• Bitter attacks open debate on same-sex marriage | Conservative Leader Stephen Harper tried to paint Paul Martin's party with a legacy of intolerance as the same-sex-marriage debate began in Parliament, saying a Liberal government interned Japanese Canadians and closed the borders to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
• Martin, Harper face off over gay marriage bill as parliamentary debate begins (Canadian Press)
• Pope-a-dope | The New Haven-based Knights of Columbus launches a border war with Canada over same-sex marriages (New Haven Advocate, Conn.)

Cloning:

• Ian Wilmut: Human cloner | How the man who created Dolly the sheep slid down the slippery slope to human reproductive cloning (Wesley J. Smith, The Weekly Standard)
• Harvard research on cloned embryos legal, Coakley says | Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley said yesterday that Harvard University's current embryonic stem cell research and plans to create cloned human embryos are all legal under state law, and she released documents filed by the university describing its research (The Boston Globe)

Stem cells:

• Personal pleas ring at stem cell hearing | Legislators weigh views on science and morality (The Boston Globe)
• Supporters, critics wrangle over stem cell research proposal (Associated Press)
• A climate of fear in the stem cell lab | While researchers in California gleefully contemplate how they will spend the $3 billion in stem cell funding recently approved by state voters, a dispiriting miasma has settled upon the rest of the stem cell community (David A. Shaywitz, The Boston Globe)
• Stem cells' promise pits jobs vs. values | States have long worried about how far to go in attracting jobs, with the debate focused mainly on tax incentives and other corporate giveaways. Now, as states gamble billions on controversial stem cell research to attract coveted biotech jobs, they're confronting an issue rare in job development: moral values (USA Today)

Abortion:

• New bill authorizes sale of Ohio anti-abortion plates | 'Choose life' sales to benefit nonprofit groups (WCMH, Columbus, Oh.)
• Anti-abortion bill clears House | 'Trigger statute' does not contain exceptions for health, rape or incest (Associated Press)
• As girls 'vanish,' Chinese city battles tide of abortions | Guiyang, China, has enacted a pioneering ban on abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy to try and address the gap between male and female childbirths (The New York Times)
• YWCA, S-O-S: We aren't pro-abortion | Ensler, 'Vagina Monologues' playwright, to visit ND today (South Bend Tribune, Ind.)
• Human tissue found in sewage spill near abortion clinic | Health department investigates (KPRC, Houston)
• Rock on | Chris Rock hits on a profound truth. He has exposed a profound side effect of legalized abortion — the sexual mistreatment of women. (Dorinda Bordlee, National Review Online)

Abuse:

• Jury to deliberate in priest's abuse trial | The jury in the trial of a former priest accused of molesting an altar boy got the case Wednesday but failed to reach a verdict after five hours of deliberations (Associated Press)
• Statute of limitations targeted in abuse cases | Under Massachusetts law, rape cases must be brought within 15 years of the incident being reported to law enforcement or, in the case of a child, 15 years of the accuser's 16th birthday, whichever comes first (The Washington Post)

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