21.   After the church dropped the practice, the law was repealed.

22.   Alabama voters will decide Tuesday whether to repeal their law.

23.   Brett Granlund, a Republican state assemblyman who opposes the ban, said repealing the law would be very difficult.

24.   But Brett Granlund, a Republican state assemblyman who opposes the ban, said repealing the law would be very difficult.

25.   But business interests have not pushed to amend or repeal the law, which dates back to the early big-governmentalism of World War I.

26.   But not all efforts to have the laws repealed have succeeded.

27.   But one regulator, speaking on condition of anonymity, said tobacco companies might seek to repeal laws in communities where support for antismoking measures was not overwhelming.

28.   But Oskamp said patients will have won half the battle even if the assisted-suicide law is repealed.

29.   But last week it became the only one in the nation to repeal its law protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination in housing, employment and credit.

30.   But Rowland, flanked by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, said repealing the law would allow greater flexibility.