A Bill allowing abortion up to birth for any reason has been signed into law by the Governor of Massachusetts.
Striking out existing legal protections for the unborn after 24 weeks, House Bill 5595 permits any abortion on the approval of a single doctor. The requirement for a late-term abortion to take place in a hospital has also been dropped.
The legislation is scheduled to come into effect 90 days from signing and will make Massachusetts the eleventh US state to legalise abortion on demand.
‘Ugly chapter’
Governor Maura Healey claimed the extreme measures will enable women to “receive compassionate, medically appropriate care in Massachusetts”.
But National Right to Life President Carol Tobias observed: “At the very stage when premature babies are receiving lifesaving care in neonatal intensive care units, Massachusetts will permit abortionists to end the lives of children of the same age—and even older. That is not compassion, and it is not health care.”
“When lawmakers remove every objective limitation and authorise an abortion provider to decide whether an abortion may be performed at any point in pregnancy, abortion until birth is precisely what the law allows.”
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said: “Without a minimum national standard, the United States remains 1 of only 8 countries worldwide that allows abortion at any point in pregnancy. We must do all we can to turn the page on America’s ugly chapter of late-term abortion.”
Abortion giant
US abortion giant Planned Parenthood performed 434,450 abortions in 2023-24.
In its annual report, published in April, the organisation complained that Government measures “blocking patients from using Medicaid” for Planned Parenthood services put 200 abortion clinics “at risk of closure”.
More women “will be forced to stay pregnant because abortion is out of reach”, it claimed, but pledged “to do everything possible” to enable ‘people’ to have an abortion.
In 24 states, Planned Parenthood boasted, its affiliates “provide medication abortion through telemedicine, reducing the need for patients to travel long distances” for an abortion.
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