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Alito & abortion:

• Alito downplays 1985 abortion statement | Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito distanced himself Tuesday from his 1985 comments that there was no constitutional right to abortion, telling a senator in private that he had been "an advocate seeking a job" (Associated Press)
• Also: Alito downplays anti-abortion memo | "'I don't give heed to my personal view. What I do is interpret the law'," Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California quoted Alito, a federal appeals judge the past 15 years, as telling her (Reuters)
• Liberals rap Alito's anti-Roe stance | Liberals said yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s 1985 claim that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" proves that he would try to outlaw the practice (The Washington Times)
• '85 document opens window to Alito views | Judge Samuel Alito Jr. wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," documents showed (The New York Times)
• No right to abortion, Alito argued in 1985 | Reagan-era papers show staunch conservatism (The Washington Post)
• Alito papers dispute right to abortion | Samuel A. Alito Jr., the nominee for the Supreme Court, wrote in a 1985 application for a senior position in the Reagan administration that ''the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" (The Boston Globe)
• Alito's beliefs, then and now | This time Karl Rove doesn't have to call Dr. Dobson to whisper to him that the Supreme Court nominee goes to an evangelical church (CBS News)
• Three-quarter truths | The sloppy mischaracterizations of Alito's abortion decisions (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)

Religion & politics:

• Mulling the limits of freedom of speech in churches | The IRS is investigating whether a church in Pasadena, Calif., is abusing its non-profit status by promoting its outspoken antiwar stance. The development has other churches debating how their leaders should walk the line between free speech and preaching (Day to Day, NPR)
• Former Sen. John Danforth to pen book | Danforth's Faith and Politics, to be published in fall 2006, "will explore the widening rift between left and right, conservative and liberal, believer and nonbeliever," Viking said Monday in a press release (Associated Press)
• Carter's views | If hindsight is 20-20, Carter knows how to win the presidency as both a deeply religious man and a Democrat, and how to lose it to a Republican conservative touting family values and national security (Editorial, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)
• Why does Foxman tout 'menace' of evangelicals? To raise more money | Devoted to fighting anti-Jewish bigotry, the Anti-Defamation League is America's most influential Jewish group. So what are we to make of the weird air of unreality in the ADL's public statements about Christians? (David Klinghoffer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

FDA Plan B ruling criticized:

• Review of 'Plan B' pill is faulted | Report calls FDA actions 'unusual' (The Washington Post)
• Report details FDA rejection of next-day pill | The Government Accountability Office said it was told the decision came before a scientific review was completed (The New York Times)
• Audit faults FDA on morning-after pill | Lawmakers are again accusing the Food and Drug Administration of putting politics over science in the long-running saga over whether the morning-after pill should sell without a prescription (Associated Press)
• Review process 'unusual,' GAO says of contraceptive | Federal health officials used an "unusual" review process last year when they decided to continue requiring a prescription for an "emergency" birth-control product considered by some to be an abortion drug, a federal watchdog said yesterday (The Washington Times)

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