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Abortion Expansion Bill Likely To Get Massachusetts House Vote This Week

Abortion Expansion Bill Likely To Get Massachusetts House Vote This Week

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is green-lighting an amendment to the state budget bill that would expand late-term abortions and either lower the age requiring parental consent for abortion or eliminate it altogether. Current language in the bill is murky on whether a doctor who performs an abortion would still be required to save the life of a baby who survives it, as state law currently provides.

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is green-lighting an amendment to the state budget bill that would expand late-term abortions and either lower the age requiring parental consent for abortion or eliminate it altogether. Current language in the bill is murky on whether a doctor who performs an abortion would still be required to save the life of a baby who survives it, as state law currently provides.…