Cambridge School Committee members considered striking a requirement that parents be notified if their child makes a discrimination complaint, before abandoning the idea.
The requirement to notify parents is in the school's non-discrimination policy, which school officials were updating earlier this month. The primary concern in removing the passages about notifying parents was "privacy for students, in particular, LGBTQIA+ students," said school committee vice chairman Rachel Weinstein during the school committee meeting on Tuesday, August 9, while summing up points sent by fellow committee member Akriti Bhambi, who did not attend the meeting.
A western Massachusetts photographer who supports legal abortion is taking photos of people wearing T-shirts with pro-abortion slogans while in their home.
"Abortion Saves Lives" reads one T-shirt modeled on the photographer's web site, accompanied by a caption attributed to the woman wearing it stating that her body was "still healing" from a previous recent pregnancy and that the coronavirus shutdowns of 2020 meant "we no longer had access to the support system we relied upon to help us navigate being parents for the first time."
