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Massachusetts state Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Presley and Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Reproductive Equity Now. (Twitter / Vice President Kamala Harris)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Massachusetts just passed a sweeping new reproductive rights law, with robust protections for healthcare workers who provide abortion services. In addition to provider protections, the law removes cost barriers to abortion care, expands access to third-trimester abortions in cases of grave fetal diagnosis, increases access to emergency contraception and medication abortion, and guarantees the right to gender-affirming care.

“This is a huge victory for patients and providers, who deserve the ability to seek, access or deliver reproductive healthcare without fear or shame,” said Dr. Jennifer Childs-Roshak, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. “With this law, Massachusetts unequivocally affirms that abortion is healthcare, and that zip code, income, or identity should not be a barrier to care.”

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BY ILIANA GARNER | After reading about fellow students' experiences with sexual assault, college student Morgan Aspinwall jumped to action. With support from I Have the Right To, an advocacy organization, she created a Google map indicating locations of reported cases of sexual assault and activism internationally.

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BY PETER DREIER | “There’s no crying in baseball,” says Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own. But the film’s more subtle theme is that there are no lesbians in baseball. The 1992 film made no mention of the fact that many of the athletes in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) were gay. But last Friday, Amazon Prime Video unveiled an eight-episode series, also called A League of Their Own, that includes openly lesbian AAGPBL players.

Co-created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson—who stars as Carson Shaw, a catcher for the AAGPBL’s Rockford Peaches—the show follows the lives of Peaches players on and off the field. 

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