Campbell implored federal regulators Thursday to eliminate medication abortion restrictions on prescribers and pharmacies.
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Second Trump term has Mass. abortion advocates on edge
Rebecca Hart Holder, the president of Reproductive Equity Now, says Massachusetts needs to brace for possible assaults from the incoming Trump administration on the state’s ability to offer services not only to its own residents but to the thousands who have turned to Massachusetts for abortions in the past two years.
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Warren, Markey say Mass. not safe in national fight over abortion
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey sounded the alarm about the negative impact that a Trump presidency could have on reproductive rights, even in Massachusetts where lawmakers have done a lot to codify those rights.
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Healey withholds records on abortion pill plan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A FEDERAL JUDGE hadn’t even ruled yet on suspending approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in April when Gov. Maura Healey orchestrated a major reserve shipment […]
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Healey warns pharmacies to keep abortion meds stocked
WITH ACCESS TO a widely-used abortion medication on the line, Massachusetts is trying to walk and chew gum at the same time – warning local pharmacies that they must continue supplying […]
Posted inState Government
Baker again clashes with lawmakers on abortion-related law
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Thursday signed a $3.76 billion economic development bill. But Baker, a Republican, once again entered into a controversy with the Democratic-led Legislature over reproductive rights by […]
Posted inCourts, Health Care, Opinion
How a Mass. court case targeting the opioid crisis could protect abortion access
AFTER THE SUPREME COURT’S decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, several states wasted no time in enacting laws banning abortion. Many of these laws – some without exceptions for rape […]
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‘Crisis pregnancy’ clinics suddenly at center of abortion debate
THE ORGANIZATION HAS operated quietly for three decades, headquartered today in a nondescript brick storefront along Revere’s main street. “Your Options Medical” advertises the sign on the clinic, a faith-based […]
Posted inBallot Questions, Courts, Health Care, Opinion
Why the Kansas ballot question on abortion matters
MANY PEOPLE ACROSS the United States are devastated by the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, which overturned a half century of precedent and abolished the federal constitutional right to abortion. […]
Posted inHealth Care
Baker signs abortion rights bill
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Friday signed into law a sweeping abortion rights bill that protects health care providers from prosecutions by other states, requires insurers to fully cover abortion services, […]
Posted inHealth Care
Lawmakers reach agreement on abortion legislation
WITH THE CLOCK ticking down on the Legislature’s two-year session, House and Senate leaders announced on Monday that negotiators have reached agreement between the two branches on a bill to […]
Posted inState Government
Abortion bill nears finish line, with one hurdle left
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS can get to work crafting a final reproductive rights bill following the Senate’s unanimous vote Wednesday, and distance between the branches on an approach […]
Posted inOpinion
“We cannot lose our hard-fought equality”
SINCE 1973, access to abortion care has been a constitutional right in America. This past week, the Supreme Court took that right away, the first time ever that the Court […]
Posted inHealth Care
House passes abortion provider protections as advocates clamor for more
THE MASSACHUSETTS House on Wednesday passed a bill protecting Massachusetts abortion providers from adverse consequences by other states and requiring insurers to cover abortion care. Yet even with the Legislature’s […]
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Baker signs abortion executive order
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Friday signed an executive order protecting Massachusetts abortion providers from prosecution by other states that have made providing an abortion a criminal act. The order prohibits […]
Posted inNews Analysis
Roe overturned: What you need to know
This article is reprinted with permission of The Conversation, which compiles contents on a variety of subjects and makes it available to media organizations. logo-horizontal-en-6374a439416242a04d05435431638ec5 THE SUPREME COURT decided by […]
Posted inOpinion
Make Mass. a leader in reproductive freedom
FORTY-NINE YEARS ago today, the United States Supreme Court issued its historic ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade, confirming that access to abortion is a right guaranteed by […]
Posted inPolitics
House overrides Baker’s abortion veto
THE HOUSE ON MONDAY voted 107-46 to override Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of legislation allowing women as young as 16 to obtain abortions without parental or judicial consent and expanding […]
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Baker vetoes abortion bill
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER vetoed the Legislature’s abortion bill on Thursday, forcing lawmakers to override his veto if they want to insist on lowering from 18 to 16 the age at […]
Posted inHealth Care
Lawmakers send police reform, abortion measures to governor
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE LEGISLATURE sent bills dealing with police reform and abortion back to Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday and began work on compromise health care legislation that […]
Posted inOpinion
Parental or judicial consent doesn’t work for everyone
FOR YEARS I was too ashamed of the abortion I had at sixteen to tell anyone. I had to cross state lines, driving from Massachusetts to Connecticut, to get abortion […]
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Baker refuses to sign abortion provision
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER rejected a provision in the Legislature’s budget bill lowering the age of parental consent for an abortion from 18 to 16 and tweaked other language narrowing when […]
Posted inPolitics
Abortion access bill draws big crowds to State House
IT’S BEEN HELD up as a bulwark against the conservative forces determined to overturn Roe V. Wade and decried as an opening to legalized “infanticide.” Supporters of the bill say […]