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Birth Control Hot Topic

By Eesha Williams

Hadley, MA – Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and Patricia Murray of Washington met yesterday with President Bush's nominee to head the FDA. They failed to come to an agreement over the sale of so-called "morning-after" birth control pills. Meanwhile, about 30 people in Hadley, Massachusetts recently protested outside a Wal-Mart store that is refusing to sell the morning-after pill. WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Eesha Williams has more.