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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Thanks. BTW once Less told me what to look for I found something that said Mass had a parallel law.
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Yeah, in the 1970s or 80s, right up through the period when I was at the Party, a lot of Dems would have openly supported limits on birth control (Catholic influence) and most Republicans would have supported them (the Right to Life influence and the effort to pull Catholics from the Democratic Party). It's easy to forget how recent this all was.
Ray Flynn, the first truly progressive mayor of Boston back then, came back from being Ambassador to the Vatican a total right wing nutcase, and still wanders around Southie muttering shit about how abortion and birth control are evil.
We're in the middle of a project to fix our laws to get rid of the old stuff like this right now, and its supported both by the Republican Governor and the Dems.
