A Democratic state senator in Rhode Island who supports legal abortion provided the one-vote majority to kill a bill in committee that would have removed most restrictions on late-term abortions, saying the bill "goes well beyond Roe v. Wade."
The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill Tuesday night on a 5-4 vote. Some analysts had previously thought the bill would garner 5-4 support from the committee, but state Senator Stephen Archambault (D-Smithfield) flipped the expected result by voting no.
Voters at Town Meeting in Chatham rejected a warrant article proposing to spend $100,000 to build a Jaws II-scenario shark barrier by one vote.
Supporters are worried that a great white shark might make its way from Nantucket Sound into Oyster Pond and an area known as Children's Beach. One speaker said he saw two dead seals near the entrance of Stage Harbor, one with a large bite out of it, according to The Cape Cod Times.
