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The state already forbids funding of abortions, but the governor says the legislation "closes loopholes." Planned Parenthood Arizona says the move "could reduce access to a wide range of preventive health care for thousands of Arizonans."

Host Bob Edwards talks with author Tom Keneally about his recent visit to Eritrea. The country is suffering from the results of their two-year conflict with Ethiopia compounded by a drought. There are an estimated one million Eritreans uprooted, with many of them homeless and living in refugee camps.

Host Renee Montagne talks to reporter Richard Galpin about the resurgence of violence in East Timor. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees suspended operations in West Timor after three of its workers were severely injured in an attack by pro-Indonesian militias.

In the last few weeks, thousands of Albanian refugees have been streaming into Italy through the port city of Brindisi. Robert talks with Orla Guerin, the Southern Europe correspondent for the BBC, about the Italian government's plans to send many of them back to Albania.

Jennifer Griffin reports that funeral services were held today for people who died when Israel bombed a refugee camp in southern Lebanon last week. The deaths helped spur the United States to seek a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas.

on the problems confronting hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees returning to Rwanda from camps in eastern Zaire.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Last Resort. Set in a London apartment building that acts as a holding station for people seeking political asylum, the film offers a gritty, realistic view of life as a refugee.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem reports on violence in the Gaza Strip today. Israeli tanks and bulldozers pushed into a Palestinian refugee camp, demolishing 20 buildings Israel says were used by Palestinian gunmen for cover.

The new film In This World follows the fictional journey of two Afghan refugees trying to make their way to London. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

- As Israel and the PLO sit down to discuss the so-called "final status" issues of borders, refugees and Jerusalem, Laurie Neff reports that the rightwing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using an old law to revoke the residence permits of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem.