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Herald covers Rep. Lyons’ probe into DMH role in forced abortion

by mafamily

Last Friday, the Boston Herald reported on Rep. Jim Lyons’ (R-Andover) efforts to get answers from the Department of Mental Health (DMH) after the agency backed in court the parents of a mentally ill woman who sought the right to force her to have an abortion, a decision that was overturned on appeal. “Any time […]

MA appeals court rules judge was wrong to order abortion, sterilization

by mafamily

The Massachusetts Appeals Court on Tuesday reversed a probate judge’s decision to order a schizophrenic woman to undergo an abortion and to then be sterilized, saying the woman had consistently expressed her opposition to the practice as a Roman Catholic. According to the Boston Globe, in October, the state Department of Mental Heath filed a […]