Pro-Life Petition-Drive Organizers: We Have Enough Signatures to Challenge Massachusetts’ Unrestricted Abortion Law
Organizers of a grassroots petition drive to stop Massachusetts’ new unrestricted abortion law claim to have enough signatures to put the measure before voters in November 2028. But that’s unlikely to happen. The Compassionate Care Coalition, which led the signature-gathering drive, on Thursday called on Healey not to add the emergency preamble. “The people of Massachusetts did not ask for abortion through all nine months, and in a matter of weeks they made that clear,” said Sam Miele, the coalition’s chairman, in a written statement. “We are grateful to every volunteer, pastor and parish staffer who carried a clipboard. Because of them, voters will have the final say.” A spokesman of the governor could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon. The signature-gathering campaign this fall was supported by all four Catholic diocesan bishops in the state, who encouraged pastors to…