"These laws passed in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, and elsewhere are an unconstitutional attack on the fundamental rights of women. They are about prohibiting women from making personal decisions about their own bodies, their own families, and their own lives."
— Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, testifying before the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on the Judiciary, Monday, June 17, 2019
Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of an exchange about whether the proposed ROE Act abortion expansion bill in the Massachusetts Legislature would legalize infanticide. The discussion took place Monday, June 17 during a hearing before the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on the Judiciary.
The speakers are state Representative Sheila Harrington (R-Groton), a practicing lawyer, and two supporters of the ROE Act bill, Dr. Carole Allen, a retired pediatrician who is vice president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Dr. Luu Ireland, an obstetrician-gynecologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester and a board member of the Massachusetts section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
