A Republican lawmaker in Maine was censured by his colleagues after implying that the deadliest mass shooting in the state's history was punishment from God for a recently passed abortion law. During debate on a bill on reproductive and gender-affirming care on the House floor Wednesday, state Rep. Michael Lemelin called the legislation "the purest form of evil" and then compared it to Legislative Document 1619, a bill to expand abortion access that went into effect in October. Pointing to the... Read this story
