Calling Claire Cronin "an abortion extremist," the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says her nomination to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ireland demonstrates the failure of U.S. Catholic bishops to hold Catholic politicians who support abortion accountable to their faith.
Cronin, a Democratic state representative from Easton, spearheaded the abortion-expansion ROE Act bill through the Massachusetts Legislature in 2020.
Non-citizens should be able to vote in local elections in Massachusetts because they are already participating in civic life and paying taxes, advocates of a bill before the state legislature say.
One of the sponsors, state Representative Mike Connolly (D-Cambridge), linked allowing non-citizens to vote to the state legislature's recent steps to expand mail-in voting and, in his words, "to fully modernize the election process."
