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.
Former Maine Governor Paul LePage is tending bar at a restaurant in Boothbay Harbor, Maine this summer.
The two-term Republican, widely considered the most conservative governor in the country, left office this past January after term limits prevented him from running again.
