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Abortion ‘Is A Tragedy,’ Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Says

Abortion ‘Is A Tragedy,’ Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Says

Tom Joyce

Abortion is tragic, said Amy Carnevale, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party.
 
Carnevale made the comment during an interview Monday, May 1 on Boston Public Radio, on WGBH FM 89.7. She had just said that the Republican Party stands for freedom, when co-host Margery Eagan objected, saying that texters to the show argued that Republicans oppose freedom, citing trying to outlaw abortion as an example.
 
"So if we're talking about the issue of abortion specifically, I can talk about our party platform, which actually I wrote, it's going back 12 years now, and it does talk about how the issue of abortion is tragic, that a woman experiencing an abortion is a tragedy, and that the Republican Party believes in programs to care for women in that situation," Carnevale said.
 
Eagan pushed back.
 
"Hold on, hold on, hold on. The reason, number one reason, Amy, women have abortions in America is poverty. Most women have abortions, their mothers. Republicans have voted against every effort to increase funding for women without children, including SNAP, which provides food to children," Eagan said.
 
Carnevale stood by what she'd said.
 
"Here in Massachusetts, abortion is legal. And, you know, I have no doubt that will continue to be the case. But as a party we can express the belief that the abortion itself and a woman undergoing. you know that procedure, making the decision for that procedure is a tragic situation," Carnevale said.

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‘Ladies’-gate Leads To Second Resignation In Easthampton
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‘Ladies’-gate Leads To Second Resignation In Easthampton

Tom Joyce

Amid Easthampton's continued search for a superintendent, another member of the city's school committee has resigned in protest of the ditching of the committee's original first-choice candidate.
 
In early April, the Easthampton School Committee rescinded an offer to Vito Perrone to become the public school district's superintendent after he addressed two members of the committee as "Ladies" in an email message, sparking national coverage.
 
Two weeks ago, a school committee member who supported Perrone resigned from the committee, citing the committee's backtracking as one reason.
 
This past weekend, a second supporter of Perrone also resigned.
 
"I can no longer work with a committee that has proven to act in ways that are detrimental to our school district and community at large," said recent school committee member Laurie Garcia, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
 
"It was a character assassination of Dr. Vito Perrone because we were repeatedly told that 'he did not know how to be professional,' 'he was too cavalier,' and he had used a 'microaggression' when he used 'Ladies' in an email," Garcia told the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

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