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Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts: COVID-19 Response Fund: Nonprofits in Pioneer Valley
Community First Step Toward North Central Massachusetts: Critical Requirements COVID-19 Fund: Nonprofits in North Central Massachusetts
Community first step toward Southeastern Massachusetts: SouthCoast crisis Response Fund: businesses with priority populations
COVID-19 Fund Relief for Individuals (Artists): together with brand brand brand brand brand New England Foundation when it comes to the Arts, Mass Cultural Council’s COVID-19 Relief Fund for folks provides $1,000 funds to those who have lost income based on their act as specific performers and separate training artists/humanists/scientists as the result of COVID-19 related cancellations and closures in Massachusetts.​
LGBTQ News: Republican Legislatures, Religious Support And Biden s CBP Nominee
Today on our LGTBQ news roundtable: More than a dozen Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed or are promoting bills targeting transgender youth; a new poll reveals that 75 percent of people of faith support protections against LGBTQ discrimination; and President Biden nominates the first openly gay head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
Guests:
Grace Sterling Stowell executive director of the Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth, or BAGLY.
E.J. Graff journalist, author and managing editor of the The Monkey Cage at the Washington Post.
February 10, 2021
One of the recurring arguments raised by opponents decriminalizing abortion in the state is that healthcare providers might leave out of fear they will be forced to perform an abortion.
But that’s not the case, advocates say.
HB 7 and SB 10 would remove three sections of the criminal code, ensuring medical workers would not be penalized with a fourth-degree felony for providing an abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court decision
Roe v. Wade is overturned. Lawmakers criminalized abortion in 1969 and though it has been federally legal since 1973, the state law has remained on the books.
Legal and health experts have repeatedly said in committee hearings that there are protections in place in various state and federal laws that allow a health care provider to refuse treatment based on personal conviction. Repealing the statute does not change the way abortion care is currently practiced.