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By Sam Drysdale

Massachusetts’ public colleges and universities need to submit a medication abortion readiness plan this week, and Gov. Maura Healey has released a new resource to help college administrators make abortion care more accessible for students.In July...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city may soon try its hand at enacting an ordinance strengthening rights to reproductive and gender-affirming care, even though a similar measure in neighboring Easthampton failed to muster enough votes to override a mayoral...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Groups championing reproductive rights are urging Easthampton city councilors to override the mayor’s veto of an ordinance around reproductive and gender-affirming care at Wednesday’s council.The ordinance, would protect people seeking...

By MADDIE FABIAN

BOSTON — Opponents of a proposed state bill that would prevent deceptive advertising at pregnancy resource centers used a lengthy public hearing in Boston on Monday to make their case why the bill is deficient.Testimony from several nonprofit groups...

By SAM DORAN

BOSTON — A federal judge hadn’t even ruled yet on suspending approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in April when Gov. Maura Healey orchestrated a major reserve shipment of the drug through the state’s flagship university. But despite pledges of...

By MARISSA WALKER

BOSTON — “Pregnancy resource centers” are becoming increasingly prevalent in Massachusetts, outnumbering abortion providers 3-to-1 as these anti-abortion women’s health care centers push back against abortion rights advocates.Last month, Massachusetts...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — On what would have been the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion across the country before being overturned by the court last year, women from generations old and new rallied Sunday at...