U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren brought the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee to Boston today for a field hearing on a topic that not only directly affects roughly half of the population, but is also key to the Democrats' national political strategy for 2024.
Two cases currently sit before the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. One would limit medicated abortions with drugs like mifepristone, while the other pulls back the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which requires physicians to provide care regardless of personal objections."We have some of the most radically permissive abortion laws in the nation," argued Sam Whiting of the Massachusetts Family Institute.
Nationally, Democrats are hoping to make political hay this year by contrasting their positions on abortion to those of Republicans, especially presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. Gov. Maura Healey has been A released in April found that 67% of Massachusetts residents feel that the Supreme Court striking down the federal right to abortion was the wrong decision.