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...being forced by Massachusetts and Illinois to stock the pills in those states, Wal-Mart concluded that wasn't a battle worth waging anywhere else. "Rather than try to fight these [bouts] state by state, it just seemed like the right time to begin to sell emergency contraceptives," says Mona Williams, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman. The decision is the latest in a string of developments expanding access to emergency contraception, one of the few arenas in which abortion-rights groups seem to be gaining ground...
...simply isn?t in great demand), it has nevertheless faced intense ideological pressure. ?We?ve had women?s groups who felt that we should be selling it; we?ve had conservative Christian organizations that felt Wal-Mart was the last one taking a stand again the drug,? says Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for the company. Wal-Mart has been considering the change for months; at a meeting in January of store managers, several lobbied for adding Plan B to the usual stock, arguing that the majority of Wal-Mart customers are women and would appreciate having it available...
...Mona Cadena, a regional field director for Amnesty International agrees. "Time will tell whether it strikes a blow against lethal injections. But talking about having someone enter the death chamber to administer the drugs takes away the anonymity that [the current method of hooking the inmate up to a machine outside the room] puts in place and will force us to decide who will take responsibility for ending a human life, which is a hard thing to ask someone...
...burn copies of the Koran in Copenhagen's City Hall Square. No copies were burned. In early February, almost three months after refusing to meet with the 11 Muslim ambassadors, Rasmussen summoned the entire foreign diplomatic corps in Denmark to explain his position. But by that time, says Mona Omar Attia, Egypt's ambassador to Denmark, "this was no longer a government issue but one of the masses...
Evidently, this whole story is as ambiguous as Federico Fellini’s “8½” or the nature of the Mona Lisa “smile.” Iran moves from chapter to chapter, with clever rhetoric, cash-fluent promises, and hideous lies. Teheran is an actor playing on the edge in a genre as sensitive as nuclear proliferation. Hopefully, none of the protagonists will end this play with a bloody catharsis on a stage famous for endless crimson-blemished sands...