By Jasmine Li Students and activists gathered outside of the Massachusetts State House Thursday for the second annual Boston Climate Strike, urging legislators to co-sponsor bills calling for immediate...

Speakers called for the swift passage of the Act to Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access, or ROE Act, in Massachusetts. Behind them stood a wall of women dressed as Supreme Court justices, Lady Liberty and — most prominently — handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel and series “The Handmaid’s Tale.”