Massachusetts Expands, Adds Reproductive, Gender-Affirming Healthcare

While many states are cutting back on reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare, Massachusetts now has a new state bill that "will expand and add protections to reproductive and transgender healthcare."

According to a news item on Feminist Majority Foundation's site ("Massachusetts Expands Protections for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Care"), Governor Maura Healey signed a "groundbreaking new act" that will "safeguard patients, providers, insurers, tech companies, and others from federal investigations related to reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare."

The bill, S.2538, "adds reproductive and gender-affirming care providers’ personal information to the list of protected non-public information under the public records law."

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Musk Likely Violated Constitution, Federal Judge Rules

Elon Musk "likely violated the Constitution 'in multiple ways'" in his effort to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Judge Theodore D. Chuang of U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland also found that Musk "robbed Congress of its authority to oversee the dissolution of an agency it created."

According to The New York Times' article ("Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds"), Judge Chuang ruled that Musk had not been properly appointed by President Donald J. Trump. The article goes on to state that unnamed aid workers had filed a lawsuit to block the dismantling of the U.S.A.I.D., and that they had a good chance of succeeding in their suit.


To read the article in its entirety, go to "Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds".