More than 100 people prayed in cold pouring rain for the defeat of an abortion-expansion amendment outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Saturday afternoon, an organizer said.
Opponents of the proposed legislation say it would legalize infanticide.
The city of New Bedford has rescinded its 100-person limit on church gatherings — regardless of the size of the church — in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo from severely limiting attendance at church services there.
On November 25, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a preliminary injunction against coronavirus restrictions in New York state in the case Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo. The court ruled 5-4 that 10-person or 25-person limits on in-person church services for Catholic churches and Orthodox Jewish synagogues in certain counties are not constitutional because they violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
