The state of Massachusetts has enacted a radical abortion law that allows for a baby to be killed up until the moment of birth. Thanks to the Prioritizing Patient Care Act, medical personnel are legally protected to abort babies beyond 24 weeks gestation upon request.
Governor Maura Healey (D) signed the bill so that every woman in the state can have the “right” to an abortion. “Under prior law, some Massachusetts patients were forced to leave the state to receive care,” according to a press release from Healey’s office.
Healey hosted a press conference on Monday, surrounded by a group of joyful women as she made the announcement that will undoubtedly lead to the death of more children. “Abortion is healthcare” read the sign hung on the podium Healey spoke from. Massachusetts is the tenth state to allow abortion up to birth.
“It’s incomprehensible that even a staunch abortion activist could justify an abortion law as extreme as this one,” Joy Stockbauer, policy analyst for the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand.
Healey vowed that Massachusetts would continue to be a leader in promoting the radical agenda: “And as governor, I promise that no matter what Donald Trump or Republicans in Congress or the Supreme Court does, we’re going to continue to make sure that women and families have access to the health care that they need, right here in Massachusetts,” she pledged.
Stockbauer pointed out that the Bay State already has extremist policies when it comes to abortion.
“Massachusetts already had exceptions on the books to allow abortions based on the physical or mental health of the mother, though there is no situation when an abortion is medically necessary. This new law expands abortion so that a mother doesn’t even need a reason to kill her child — she can have her fully formed, birth-ready child killed in her womb simply because she feels like it. Abortion activists will say that no one has an abortion in the third trimester unless they medically need to. This law exposes that claim for the farce that it is.”
Healey’s press release said that Massachusetts law will reflect the belief that “health care decisions should be made between women and their doctors.”
“That was the argument,” said Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on his podcast, “The Briefing,” referring to Healey’s line of reasoning. “[But] we just need to note that she [Healey] goes on saying that the justification for this is that there are prenatal, pre-birth diagnoses that are medically devastating that should allow women to terminate a pregnancy.”
Mohler continued that the law opens the floodgates for on-demand abortion.
“You have conditions that are diagnosed late after 24 weeks of pregnancy, and women are deciding on the basis of that fetal diagnosis. They want to go and have an abortion now. We have to say, morally, there are some diagnoses that indicate that the pregnancy itself might not end in a live birth. But the point is here that even as Governor Healy and others claim that as the moral justification, the moral effect goes far beyond this.”
Doctors say that babies born as early as 22 weeks have the capacity to survive with proper care.
“By the third trimester, a mother has been feeling her baby kick and squirm for months. If she shined a flashlight at her belly, the baby may poke that spot in response, which is a favorite game I used to play with my little boy before he was born,” Stockbauer shared. “Let’s be clear on what this abortion law means for Massachusetts: children will be killed on what could have been their birthdays.”
The bill is scheduled to take effect in 90 days.
