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The arguments surrounding Terri Schiavo will live on in statehouse debate and new laws if an emerging coalition of disability rights activists and right-to-lifers succeeds in turning the national agony over her case into a re-examination of when and how our lives come to an end. So far, only a few legislators in a handful of states have sought significant changes to their laws, which define the fundamental elements at stake - how a person can set limits on their medical care, who gets to decide what their wishes are, what evidence is needed to prove it. None have yet...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP)--Christian bookstores and other businesses in California could be required to hire "transsexuals" and "cross-dressers" -- for example, men wearing dresses -- if legislation that passed the California State Assembly April 21 becomes law. The bill, which would outlaw employment and housing discrimination against "transsexuals" and "cross-dressers," passed the California Assembly 42-34. It now moves on to the state Senate, where it must pass in order to make it to the desk of California Gov. Gray Davis, who has yet to take a public position on the bill. The new legislation would allow an employer to enforce "reasonable"...