When the Massachusetts House voted last month to start screening all newborns for a particular virus they can contract in utero, Vanessa Colleran was at work and couldn’t be there to celebrate.
Her husband Peter FaceTimed her from the marble hallway, then walked the phone into the House chamber alongside one of the lawmakers who supported the measure.
“I cried so many times thinking about it and watching,” Vanessa Colleran recalled later. “It means so much to families like ours to finally feel heard and seen.”…