If the Massachusetts House budget passes, it will mean that taxpayers will be on the hook for more abortions.
Since a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in 1981, public funding in Massachusetts has paid the full cost of abortion for women whose incomes are low enough to qualify for Medicaid; it's one of 16 states with publicly-funded elective abortions.
A socialist from Whitman has made the ballot in the Massachusetts House of Representatives election in the Seventh Plymouth District.
Brandon Griffin, a member of the Workers Party of Massachusetts, has made the ballot in his race against incumbent state Representative Alyson Sullivan (R-Abington), his party announced on social media on Thursday, April 28.
