Pro-life protesters confronted Steve Marchand, a Democratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire, over his call for a state statute guaranteeing legal abortion and for using state Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for poor women.
Marchand, a former mayor of Portsmouth, came to Keene in the southwestern corner of the state for a campaign event Tuesday.
With time running out again on comprehensive sex education legislation, state Representative James O'Day says he's trying to convince his Massachusetts House colleagues that the bill is not about encouraging young people to be sexually active.
