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  Hi Reader,   Emily Waldorf was 17 weeks pregnant when a doctor told her, “Your body is about to miscarry.”    Her cervix was dilated, it had opened too soon, and she was going to lose the daughter whose nursery she was just getting ready to decorate.    This news was both devastating and dangerous. Three doctors gathered in the hospital room and told Waldorf and her husband that the longer her cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria, the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection. The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.    But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply. Doing so would run afoul of the Arkansas state abortion ban. Legally, they said they could not intervene until she went into labor on her own or showed signs of a dangerous infection, or until the fetal heartbeat ended. Waldorf struggled to understand what the doctors were saying as waves...

  I'll be straight with you: I've done a lot of tough things in my life. I played college football, tried to make it in the NFL. That was tough, mentally, physically, emotionally. I served as a Capitol police officer for over 15 years, and those were tough some days. But the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection was one of the toughest things I've been through. My pain and my trauma didn't end on January 7. Even after the violence of that day, I dealt with death threats. I dealt with people harassing me for speaking out. And when I decided to testify in front of Congress? It was one of the toughest obstacles I've ever faced. But I did testify, because it was my duty not just as an officer, but as an American. I made a big step the day I testified for the January 6th committee. I stepped in the direction of protecting our democracy. And, I've never looked back. I'm ready to protect our democracy as a Congressman, and I need you to join me. I wouldn’t ask ...

  The Saturday Send ADVERTISEMENT Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. This week, Jordan Wolman looks at why, nearly four years after receiving millions through a federal EV infrastructure program , the Commonwealth hasn’t built a single charger, despite being roughly 2,000 chargers short of its estimated needs. Plus, proponents of a ballot measure to create the strictest statewide rent control in the country are scrambling to find a way off the ballot; a House bill would permanently limit the power voters awarded the state auditor to probe the Legislature ; the Mass. inspector general warns that county sheriffs’ budgeting is rife with “chaos” ; and the House joins the Senate in a crusade for stronger data privacy in Massachusetts.    Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. — The CommonWealth Beacon team     Massachusetts’s slow adoption of EV chargers thro...