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Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner’s More Interested In Attacking Pro-Life Centers Than In Improving Public Health

Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner’s More Interested In Attacking Pro-Life Centers Than In Improving Public Health

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At the beginning of January, commissioner Robert Goldstein of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a memorandum to all Massachusetts health care providers, supposedly to remind them about their licensure obligations. But to careful readers, it was immediately apparent that the letter represented a thinly veiled threat against the license of any medical professional who partners with pro-life pregnancy resource centers, also sometimes called crisis pregnancy centers.

At the beginning of January, commissioner Robert Goldstein of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a memorandum to all Massachusetts health care providers, supposedly to remind them about their licensure obligations. But to careful readers, it was immediately apparent that the letter represented a thinly veiled threat against the license of any medical professional who partners with pro-life pregnancy resource centers, also sometimes called crisis pregnancy centers.…