Death Cult: Massachusetts Governor Signs Bill Legalizing Abortion Up to Birth
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
There's a photo from the State House yesterday that tells you everything about where this debate has landed. Women applauding, Governor Healey smiling for the cameras, all of it staged like a ribbon-cutting. What they were actually celebrating was the removal of the 24-week line that Massachusetts law used to draw, the point past which a baby can often survive outside the womb.
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It was an utterly macabre scene in Massachusetts yesterday, as Democrat Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation legalizing abortion up to birth and removing previously existing protections for post-24 weeks abortions.
The death sentence, which overwhelmingly passed the Democrat House on July 22, was met with cheers and smiles of surrounding women who champion "reproductive freedoms."
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There's a photo from the State House yesterday that tells you everything about where this debate has landed. Women applauding, Governor Healey smiling for the cameras, all of it staged like a ribbon-cutting. What they were actually celebrating was the removal of the 24-week line that Massachusetts law used to draw, the point past which a baby can often survive outside the womb. That line is gone now. Nothing has replaced it except the judgment of whoever is in the room.
Even people who call themselves pro-choice have historically balked at abortion with no gestational limit at all. Polling for years has shown most Americans, including plenty of Democrats, want some boundary once a pregnancy reaches the third trimester. Massachusetts lawmakers didn't split that difference. The House passed this by a lopsided margin back on July 22, and Healey signed it without much hesitation, which tells you this wasn't a reluctant compromise forced by circumstance. It was a choice, made deliberately, to go further than the law required.
Defenders will call it "reproductive freedom" and leave it at that, because the specifics don't sell as well as the slogan. Nobody at that signing was talking about what happens at week 30 or 35, only about the abstract right to choose. But a bill that erases post-viability protections isn't really about hard cases anymore. It's about removing limits entirely and calling the absence of a limit progress.
Massachusetts didn't sneak this through. It passed it in daylight, with cheering, and a governor eager to put her name on it. That's the part worth sitting with. This wasn't an accident of legislative drafting. It was the point.
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