The U.S. stock market is a decade into a rally that has seen broad indexes triple in value and generate $30 trillion in wealth. The unemployment rate is 3.8% nationally, and the early caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire are tied with even lower seasonally adjusted rates of 2.4%. Real annual growth in the gross domestic product was recently estimated at 2.9% for the United States in 2018, outpacing other developed economies such as those of Japan and Europe.
Does this sound like a textbook case of pre-revolutionary misery? Not exactly.
Massachusetts Citizens for Life is planning a rally this coming weekend against a bill that would remove most remaining restrictions on abortion in Massachusetts.
The so-called ROE Act would make it easier to get abortions after 24 weeks and would remove a requirement that underage girls get permission from their parents or from a judge to get an abortion.
