For good reason, we’ve posted a lot of stories about Monday’s signing of H.5595, euphemistically labeled the “Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act.”
“Gov. Maura Healey was met with applause and cheers as she signed away Massachusetts’ gestational limits on abortion, making the deep-blue state the tenth to permit the procedure up to birth,” Catherine Mills reported.
As she signed the bill into law, a smiling Massachusetts Gov. Healey could anticipate the elimination of all—all—limitations on abortion. Whether in reality there were any “restrictions” in the old law—the ROE Act of 2020— it was a point of honor, in a manner of speaking, that abortionists were now unleashed to do their worst on mammoth babies.
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And, as icing on the cake, Healey took pot shots at Republicans and reminded her cheering audience that “We’ve already taken steps to stockpile mifepristone [the “abortion pill”] here in Massachusetts.” Best guesses are that Massachusetts has hoarded 15,000 doses of mifepristone.
Mike Deehan of Axios, by no means a pro-life publication, added more background in a story headlined “How Healey’s election year abortion law came to be.” For example
*Massachusetts just scrubbed state law of the 24-week gestational boundary for abortions and the “exceptional circumstances” test that previously governed later-term procedures.” Short and to the point. No more requirement that there be “exceptional circumstances” to slice and dice unborn babies.
*Politically, it’s another win for pro-choice advocates who have been working for decades on a long list of legislative goals.
Pro-abortion Democrats hold massive advantages in the House and Senate which until recently meant they needed itsy bitsy cover for abortion on demand. Deehan writes
House Judiciary Chair Mike Day pointed to four rounds of revisiting reproductive law over 16 years, with the language governing late-term exceptions evolving through terms like “fatal,” “grave” and “serious” before landing on physician judgment. [“An abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional judgment of the physician.”]
And, of course,
It also ends the requirement that those procedures happen in a hospital.
What could possibly go wrong? As we have reported many times, “late term abortions” pose real risks to the mother.
Finally
Healey has cast the law as central to her reelection message, saying abortion access will be “on the ballot” in November.
What a joke. She has no Democrat rivals in the party primary and the chances of this monomanically pro-abort losing to a Republican are less than to be suddenly told that her “small heart grew three sizes that day.”
A vicious bunch in a party consumed by a death wish.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.



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