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Three Massachusetts telehealth abortion providers and four staffers are named in a federal lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama alleging illegal distribution of abortion pills to states where abortion is restricted. Massachusetts' shield law protecting abortion providers is unlikely to apply in this federal case, and the state's Attorney General Andrea Campbell has defended the law's protections for patients and providers within Massachusetts.

Activists in Massachusetts have filed a referendum petition to suspend the state's new abortion law, which removes restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks and is set to take effect on November 8. The effort, led by Massachusetts Citizens for Life and Massachusetts Family Action, aims to collect enough signatures this fall to either suspend the law or put a repeal question on the 2028 ballot.