Jenny Armini
State House, Eighth Essex · Democratic · Massachusetts
Where they are running
Where they stand
Reproductive rights: Armini supports making Massachusetts a safe harbor for people seeking reproductive care and protecting in-state providers, patients, and medical privacy from out-of-state investigations and disclosure.
Abortion funding: Armini supports increased state funding for abortion access, infrastructure, and security, along with higher MassHealth reimbursement rates for family planning and abortion care.
Pregnancy care costs: Armini supports reducing cost barriers to prenatal and abortion care, including legislation requiring insurance plans to cover the full spectrum of pregnancy care without cost-sharing.
Where Jenny stands on the questions on which we score all candidates
Housing · Supports: Massachusetts should increase housing production by reducing local zoning barriers to new housing.
Housing · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state funding for affordable housing.
Economy and taxes · Supports: Massachusetts should increase state taxes on the highest-income households to fund public services.
Economy and taxes · Likely opposes: Massachusetts should reduce broad-based state taxes and fees.
Economy and taxes · Supports: Massachusetts should invest in career, technical, and workforce-development programs.
Economy and taxes · Likely supports: Massachusetts should raise the state minimum wage.
Public safety and justice · Supports: Massachusetts should keep the 2024 state law that tightened gun regulations.
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 · Likely supports: Massachusetts should expand services, accessibility, and opportunities for people with disabilities.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should speed up state permitting for clean energy projects.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should require new buildings to meet stricter energy-efficiency standards.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should expand clean electricity from renewable and other carbon-free sources.
Energy and environment · Supports: Massachusetts should strengthen state climate adaptation and resilience planning for communities and infrastructure.
Energy and environment · Likely supports: Massachusetts should conserve open space and invest in parks and public lands.
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.
Transportation and infrastructure · Likely supports: Massachusetts should increase state funding for public transit operations.
Elections and government · Likely supports: Massachusetts should ensure responsive constituent services from elected officials and state offices.
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 support public health and preventive health programs.
Health and human services · Supports: Massachusetts should expand state regulation of prescription drug prices.
In the news
Meet Your Elected Official: Jennifer Armini (swampscotttides.org, Jan 7, 2026)
GUEST COLUMN: With housing plan, another chance to answer call (marbleheadcurrent.org, May 1, 2024)