Becca Rausch
State Senate, Norfolk, Worcester & Middlesex · Democratic · Massachusetts
Where they are running
Where they stand
Health care: Rausch views health care as a human right and supports legislative action to protect community health and well-being.
Maternal health: Rausch supports reducing racial and income-based disparities in maternal health care and expanding access to midwifery care.
Abortion rights: Rausch supports abortion access and reproductive freedom, including allowing people to make abortion decisions with medical providers without lawmakers' interference or fear of legal repercussions.
Where Becca stands on the questions on which we score all candidates
Economy and taxes · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state taxes on the highest-income households to fund public services.
Economy and taxes · Likely supports: Massachusetts should support small businesses and entrepreneurship through state economic-development policies.
Public safety and justice · Supports: Massachusetts should keep the 2024 state law that tightened gun regulations.
Public safety and justice · Supports: Massachusetts should expand state oversight of police conduct.
Rights and inclusion · Likely supports: Massachusetts should limit state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Rights and inclusion · Supports: Massachusetts should protect access to abortion care under state law.
Rights and inclusion · Likely supports: Massachusetts should keep its state civil-rights protections for LGBTQ people.
Rights and inclusion · Supports: Massachusetts should expand services, accessibility, and opportunities for people with disabilities.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should speed up state permitting for clean energy projects.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should expand clean electricity from renewable and other carbon-free sources.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should protect and improve drinking water quality and water infrastructure.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should ban single-use plastic bags statewide.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should adopt stricter state limits on air pollution.
Education and families · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state funding for public K-12 schools.
Education and families · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state support for school-based mental health and wraparound services.
Education and families · Supports: Massachusetts should expand publicly supported early education and child care.
Elections and government · Likely supports: Massachusetts should allow eligible residents to register to vote on Election Day.
Elections and government · Supports: Massachusetts should expand voting access through early and mail-in voting.
Elections and government · Likely supports: Massachusetts should strengthen transparency and accessibility of government records and proceedings.
Health and human services · Likely supports: Massachusetts should expand access to general health care coverage and services.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should expand access to mental-health and substance-use treatment and recovery services.
Health and human services · Likely supports: Massachusetts should expand the health and human-services workforce.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should support public health and preventive health programs.
In the news
As sex misconduct scandal hits Congress, Rausch talks changes she's championed (nbcboston.com, Apr 17, 2026)
State Sen. Becca Rausch tops Dashe Videira to win fourth two-year term (milforddailynews.com, Nov 6, 2024)