Leaders in the Massachusetts House and Senate plan to bring abortion expansion legislation to the floor during the lame-duck session that starts Wednesday, but they aren't saying whether that means the proposed ROE Act abortion expansion bill.
The ROE Act bill has languished in committee for more than a year, amid a lukewarm response from House Speaker Robert DeLeo and opposition from Governor Charlie Baker. Earlier this year it seemed dead for the current legislative 2019-2020 legislative session, because there was no movement on it ahead of the ordinary deadline for formal sessions of the state Legislature, which is July 31.
Vice presidential candidates, like doctors in the Hippocratic Oath, are supposed to "do no harm."
Joe Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, risks violating that traditional rule with an animated video narrated in her voice that she posted Sunday on social media. "There's a big difference between equality and equity," she says in the video.
