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Surgeons are increasingly finding ways to operate on fetuses while they are still in the womb. The operations can correct problems that in the past would have been fatal, or left the child with severe disabilities. But the operations raise many questions, including whether they are worth the cost and risk to the mother. Neil Tichner (TICK-nur) of member station WHYY in Philadelphia reports.

NPR's Joe Neel has an update on the AMA's decision to keep its policy of opposing physician-assisted suicide. In a debate that fizzled at the annual convention, one physician charged that the organization is simply avoiding the issue.

Scott gets a driving lesson from Tom and Ray Magliozzi.

Author, jazz writer and musician, STUART NICHSON. He is an expert on and biographer of late jazz great ALLA FITZGERALD. THrough interviews with those closest to her,. "Ella Fitzgerald: A Bioography of the FIrst LAdy of Jazz" (1994, Charlse Scribner's SOns) shows the public and private side of the media-shy legend. In her career of over 60 years, she gained the admirationof her contemporaries in the business. At the age of 79 and after years of suffering from diabetes, Fitzgerald died Saturday (JUne 15) at her home in California. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

Music reviewer Mark Jenkins has a report on music from some of today's all-girl bands who call themselves "Riot Grrrls." (GIRLS) Their style features confrontational, in-your-face lyrics, and an uncompromisingly frank attitude about men, sexuality, and modern life. Jenkins takes a look at music from the Raincoats, Bikini Kill, and Sleater-Kinney. (IN STEREO)

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports the House of Representatives today passed a bill that would impose sanctions against foreign individuals or companies investing in Iran or Libya's oil industries. The legislation is similar to the Helms-Burton Law, which punishes certain foreign firms doing business in Cuba. As with Helms-Burton, the Iran-Libya bill is raising the ire of America's trading partners, who say it violates international rules of free trade.

Noah talks with Brad Stillman, the telecommunications policy director for the Consumer Federation of America, to discuss Westinghouse Electric's three-point-nine billion dollar acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting and what it means for consumers.

Commentator Fred Grandy applauds Robert Dole for rattling GOP cages with his statements about abortions and urges him to take his rattling a step further: dump the whole GOP mission statement. He says such statements are old fashioned and open to scolding by the press.

Last week Seattle got a small taste of disaster when an earthquake rumbled briefly, upsetting household pets and knocking crockery off of shelves. But some people are never satisfied. For Commentator Michael Hood, terra firma isn't all its cracked up to be. He's waiting for the big one.

Today, India's Prime Minister P.V. Narashima Rao said he would resign. This after his ruling party suffered huge losses in national elections. Robert Siegel talks with Edmund Roy, a correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in New Delhi, about the defeat of the largest and oldest party in India's democratic history.