Christchurch, New Zealand newspaper The Press reports that after debate on euthanasia in the paper, dozens of people contacted the paper with personal testimonials of "cases of doctors giving terminally ill patients lethal doses of medication, under the guise of symptom relief" in what the paper called "a rare insight into underground euthanasia in the city" … John Smeaton, national director of Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, will undertake "a sponsored water-only fast from 20 to 28 June to demonstrate his concern and to raise money for the continuing campaign against the morning-after pill," after legal challenge to the abortifacient drugs in the United Kingdom failed in April … British supermarket chain Tesco is distributing the abortifacient morning-after pill to teenagers free of charge in some of its outlets as part of a pilot project with a local health authority.

Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Rabbinical Council of America, two of the largest Orthodox Jewish groups in the U.S., issued a joint statement in favour of destructive research on cloned human embryos: "We must be careful to distinguish between cloning for therapeutic purposes - which ought to be pursued - and cloning for reproductive purposes - which we oppose" … National Review on need for proposed anti-cloning legislation: "A human embryo, however created, is alive: It isn't dead, or inanimate. It's human: not a carrot. It is a complete human organism, a member of the human species, at an early stage of development. It is what each of us once was; nothing that is not a living human being becomes one" … U.S. House of Representatives passed the Child Custody Protection Act that would ban the transportation of minors across state lines for abortions with the intention of circumventing a parental notification law in the minor's own state, by a 260-161 vote. The measure will now be considered in the Senate, which rejected similar measures in 1998 and 1999 … Kansas Govenor Bill Graves vetoed bill that would permit "Choose Life" vehicle licence tags, saying "we shouldn't use the licence plate for a billboard for editorial comment." … Mississippi Govenor Ronnie Musgrove signed two pro-life bills, one that allows special "Choose Life" license plates and another that bans spending public funds on abortions except when the mother's life is in danger, when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or "when a fetal malformation is incompatible with the baby being born alive." American Civil Liberties Union threatens legal challenge against both laws. … National Organization of Women president Kim Grandy advocates for abortion rights during speech at Catholic Loyola University Law School in New Orleans. Archbishop Alfred Hughes condemns university for providing her a stage to advance a cause contrary to the teachings of the Catholic church.