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RNS Opening Budget — Friday, March 12, 2021

NEWS STORY
RNS-Voting-Restrictions: Faith leaders push back against proposed ‘Souls to the Polls’ voting restrictions
(RNS) — More than 500 signatories on a Faith in Public Life petition delivered to Governor Brian Kemp condemn proposed changes in voting policies they say will particularly harm people of color, including “Souls to the Polls” activities where Black church attenders have headed directly from their pews to their polling places. Religious leaders across the country are expressing concern about hundreds of voter restrictions bills that state legislatures are considering. By Adelle M. Banks. 900 words. (category: a)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Camosy-Oped: ‘Silence is not an option’: Harold Braswell on Canada’s new assisted suicide law
(RNS) — A controversial law passed Thursday (March 11) in the Canadian Parliament that has extended the right to physician-assisted suicide (or PAS) to disabled people has been received by many of those people as an attack on their well-being. A Q&A with Harold Braswell, an associate professor of health care ethics at Saint Louis University. By Charles C. Camosy. 1,053 words. (category k)

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