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Senate President Karen E. Spilka today applauded the Senate’s leadership in passing legislation to strengthen abortion protections in Massachusetts, and thanked Governor Healey for signing it into law, ensuring patients experiencing serious pregnancy complications can receive medically appropriate care from providers they know and trust here in Massachusetts.
Senate President Karen E. Spilka applauded Governor Healey signing the Senate’s law to protect students' freedom to read and keeping book bans out of Massachusetts schools and public libraries.
Today, Senate President Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) and House Speaker Ron Mariano (D-Quincy), released the following statement.
Massachusetts Senate leaders deserve credit for proposing several significant steps to address the problem, through a bill that will be voted on Thursday. While the details of these policies are complex and need to be worked out, three principles included in the bill are worth pursuing.
Every major piece of legislation in Massachusetts ultimately goes through Spilka—including the ones that don’t make it. The Senate president passed bills on cell phones in schools, data privacy, and transgender protections, and used Fair Share tax revenue to funnel an extra $1.3 billion into education and transportation.
