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Deal Bars Digital Ad Firm From Targeting Anti-Abortion Messages To Mass. Women Entering Reproductive Health Facilities
A settlement with a digital advertising company bars the firm from using a technology called geofencing to direct anti-abortion messages toward women entering reproductive health facilities in Massachusetts, the state attorney general said Tuesday. The agreement was reached after Attorney General Maura Healey investigated whether Copley Advertising or John Flynn, a Brookline man identified as the firm鈥檚 manager and sole employee, was violating the state鈥檚 consumer protection laws. Copley denied any wrongdoing. (Salsberg, 4/4)
Republican strategist Ed Gillespie opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and when the mother鈥檚 life is at risk. That was his position in 2014, when he nearly unseated Sen. Mark R. Warner (D). And that鈥檚 his stance now, as he seeks the governor鈥檚 mansion. But abortion rights groups contend that Gillespie is taking a harder line because he recently said he would like to see abortion 鈥渂anned.鈥 (Vozzella, 4/4)