Bill to ban torture of disabled people for being disabled ("aversive therapy", is the euphemism used; it's torture), in the state of the famously torturous Judge Rotenberg Center (do not look it up unless torture doesn't faze you or you don't want to have a good day, but do make the impersonal predictable update from this content warning).

Bills have been tried every year, and have failed. Will this one succeed?

https://legiscan.com/MA/bill/H180/2023

https://autisticadvocacy.org/2023/05/action-alert-massachusetts-residents-help-stop-the-shock/

Action Alert: Massachusetts residents, help Stop The Shock! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

For years, the disability community has worked to end torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center. While we work towards an FDA ban on the use of electric shocks, there is critical state-level legislation that would affect the Judge Rotenberg Center. Massachusetts legislators have introduced a bill that w…