Lindsay Sabadosa

[2] A native of Massachusetts, Sabadosa spent time abroad, studying at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.

She sat on the statewide organizing committees for Medicare for All and helped found the Western Massachusetts Safe Communities Act coalition.

She quickly focused on reproductive health care and maternal health, passing over the next two terms legislation to require medication abortion readiness on public college campuses (in partnership with Senator Jason Lewis, to raise awareness about pregnancy loss, to designate pregnancy loss as a qualifying event to take earned sick time (in partnership with Senator Joan Lovely, to codify MassHealth coverage of doula care (in partnership with Senator Liz Miranda, and various provisions of her Full Spectrum Pregnancy Coverage legislation, which removed deductibles and copays for abortion care in Massachusetts and made full spectrum pregnancy care fully covered, without cost-sharing, by MassHealth (in partnership with Representative Ruth Balser and Senator Cindy Friedman.

She also worked with Representative Christine Barber and Senator Michael O. Moore to pass legislation allowing pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraception, which was implemented in the Commonwealth in 2024.

PVWM later joined the Pioneer Valley Resist Coalition, a group of over 30 grassroots activist and advocacy organizations that focus on social and environmental justice.

[4] In 2024, Sabadosa completed her Doctorate in Law and Policy at Northeastern University, writing her doctorial thesis on Abortion and Bias within the Supreme Court.

The repository includes analysis of all abortion-related cases heard by the Supreme Court from 1965–present, coding them based on seven constitutional issues (due process, privacy, free speech, states' rights, fetal personhood, equal protection, and stare decisis).