STATE HOUSE — House Democrats put up a unified front on Wednesday against Republican-led efforts to reinsert into a major opioid abuse prevention bill controversial measures backed by Gov. Charlie Baker to limit opioid prescription sizes and allow hospitals to hold overdose patients involuntarily.
The House voted unanimously 149-0 on Wednesday evening to pass a substance abuse treatment and prevention bill, but not before a passionate debate over the length of time doctors should be allowed to hold a patient who has recently overdosed.
WASHINGTON – The annual March for Life is attracting a new crowd. In recent years, the event has drawn – and reached – groups that include feminists, human-rights advocates and atheists, not just the religiously devout.
The march has historically attracted religious leaders, Catholic students and activists, and has focused largely on the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Last year's event drew an estimated 800,000 people to Washington.
