Summer Schmaling Calls For Lower Taxes, More Education Funding In Debate

Do politicians have to raise taxes to raise revenue?

It's a disagreement the two candidates for state representative in the 12th Plymouth District had in a debate this week.

Commentary

Boston Globe Truth-Shy About ROE Act Abortion Expansion Bill

NBP Editorial Board

Any honest discussion of the proposed ROE Act bill in the Massachusetts Legislature has to deal with a provision that would enable a doctor to let a baby born after an attempted abortion die.

The bill doesn't say that. But it does that. It would remove an existing provision in state law that requires a doctor to try to save the life of an already-born baby. The obvious inference is that doctors in Massachusetts would no longer be required to save the life of a baby after birth, if that baby's existence was supposed to have been ended by abortion.

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