Auditi Guha || Lawmakers in Rhode Island, the most Catholic state in the nation, made history this week by passing legislation protecting abortion rights, one month after a Democratic state senator tanked a more comprehensive bill protecting and expanding access to abortion.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) signed the Reproductive Privacy Act(RPA) into law Wednesday night, calling it “the product of an important and vigorous debate and a great deal of public scrutiny.”
