Coerced treatment has great appeal for parents, judge and prosecutors. But, now that it has become widespread, it is damaging the treatment system and making all treatment less effective.
Justice
animal welfare, civil law and procedure, criminal law, disability, drug policy, family law, freedom of speech, guardianship, gun violence, housing law, immigration, indigenous agenda, lgbtq rights, policing, privacy, sexual child abuse, terrorism, women's rights
Gender confusion
The house voted today on a pair of gender-related bills that generated a debate full of passion, confusion and irony. I was in the majority on all three of major …
A Woman’s Right to Choose
I support a woman’s right to choose. The government should not interfere in the most deeply personal decisions in our lives. Prevention is the top priority. We should do all …
The Death Penalty
I oppose the death penalty and have voted against its reinstitution in Massachusetts The death penalty wouldn’t make Massachusetts one bit safer. People who commit awful crimes are uniformly people …
Drug policy — part I
Why do we send people to jail because of their addiction, when
treatment would be much less expensive?
Equality and humanity affirmed
I write to share a wonderful moment in the long march of human wisdom and to thank you again for electing me to play a part in it.