Massachusetts’s barbaric new law legalizes abortion up to birth, eviscerating the state’s already weak protections for the unborn. Democratic Gov. Maura Healey just aligned her state with the tiny minority of countries that allow abortion through nine months, a garish list of anti-life regimes that include communist China and Vietnam.
However, Healey and other politicians, such as Lieutenant Gov. Kim Driscoll, avoided any mention of how late the new law allowed abortions in a lengthy statement on the law. In fact, the statement goes for 14 paragraphs and quotes eight prominent state Democrats without directly mentioning the exception-filled 24-week standard that Massachusetts had just abolished. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa (D-MA) simply attacked so-called “arbitrary restrictions” without mentioning weeks or months. The first direct mention of the standard came at the bottom of the page in a quote from a board member of an abortion lobby group.
