The state's new abortion expansion bill protects abortionists and "life-saving abortion care," an advocate for abortion said Thursday.
Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Reproductive Equity Now, formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, made the comment during the public portion of a roundtable discussion that included the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was scheduled appear in Boston on Friday, but that will not happen.
He was scheduled to join U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at the Codman Square Health Center on the afternoon of Friday, August 5 to discuss "their work to address the Black maternal health crisis and protect reproductive rights following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health," according to a press release from Pressley's office on Wednesday, August 3.
