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Female Attleboro Official Wants ‘Councilman’ Out of City Charter

Matthew McDonald

"Councilman" and "committeeman" have to go from the city charter of Attleboro because they are gender-specific, a city official says.

Laura Dolan, a member of the Attleboro City Council, wants the council to ask the Massachusetts Legislature to get rid of the terms, replacing them with, respectively, "councilor" and "committee member," according to The Sun Chronicle.

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Donate For Someone Else’s Abortion — It’s For Charity

Matthew McDonald

During the past 12 years the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts has "pledged nearly $640,000" to "over 2,500 people" for abortions, according to a Smith College professor.

Carrie N. Baker, co-president of the organization, wrote a column about it for the Hampshire Daily Gazette. She is a professor and director of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College.

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