WATCH: Crowd Laughs As Dem Governor Allows Abortion Until Birth
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The clip is the thing. A room full of adults clapping and laughing, not somberly discussing a hard policy tradeoff, but genuinely delighted, over a law that erases the 24-week line entirely and leaves the decision to "a doctor's" discretion right up to delivery. You can debate abortion policy in good faith for decades and people have.
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A crowd erupted with joy as the Democratic governor of Massachusetts signed into law a “barbaric” new law allowing mothers to end the lives of their unborn children up until the point of birth. The law signed by Governor Maura Healey on Monday removes the state’s 24-week abortion restriction and allows a doctor to greenlight
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The clip is the thing. A room full of adults clapping and laughing, not somberly discussing a hard policy tradeoff, but genuinely delighted, over a law that erases the 24-week line entirely and leaves the decision to "a doctor's" discretion right up to delivery. You can debate abortion policy in good faith for decades and people have. But the mood in that room tells you something the press release won't: for a lot of the people cheering, this isn't a grim necessity anymore. It's a win to celebrate.
Massachusetts didn't tweak an exception, it removed a boundary that existed for a reason. Late-term limits with health exceptions were the compromise position even plenty of pro-choice voters were comfortable with, because most people sense that a fetus at 30 or 36 weeks is not the same thing as a clump of cells at six. Getting rid of that line and replacing it with physician discretion doesn't sound like careful lawmaking. It sounds like lawmakers who wanted to avoid ever having this fight again, so they just widened the goalposts until there weren't any.
Governor Healey can call it protecting reproductive freedom all she wants. Watch the tape instead. When your base is laughing and applauding at the signing of a bill this sweeping, that's not a messaging problem for Republicans to solve. That's a mirror. And it's worth asking why the same party that insists it's the compassionate one on this issue can't manage to look uncomfortable, even for a second, about where they just moved the line.
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