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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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The Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives voted Tuesday to re-enact the abortion bill, sending it to Governor Charlie Baker for a possible veto. The governor now has three options: sign it, veto it on or before January 1, or let it become law without his signature.
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives rejected an amendment Wednesday that would require a physician to try to save the life of a baby born after an attempted abortion. The amendment, which reflects the language in current state law, failed on a 30-120 vote.
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker split the difference on the proposed abortion expansion amendment, rejecting a proposal to lower the age of consent for abortion but ignoring the objection of opponents that it would legalize a form of infanticide. The governor returned the state budget bill to the Massachusetts Legislature on
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that Governor Charlie Baker's sweeping coronavirus restrictions do not violate state statutes or the state constitution. The court ruled unanimously on Thursday, December 10 that "reducing the dangers" of coronavirus "is a significant government interest" and that
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Universal mail-in balloting and early voting violate the Massachusetts Constitution, so more than 2 million of the 3.6 million votes case in the state during the November general election should be thrown out, five Republican candidates say in a new federal lawsuit. The plaintiffs are asking a federal judge
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More than 100 people prayed in cold pouring rain for the defeat of an abortion-expansion amendment outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Saturday afternoon, an organizer said. Opponents of the proposed legislation say it would legalize infanticide.
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has no immediate plans to shut down access to church services again because of coronavirus, but he isn't taking it off the table – even after a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week overturned the governor of New York's order severely limiting
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