Tell Governor Healey to Veto Massachusetts’ Abortion-Until-Birth Bill

After lawmakers suspended the chamber’s rules to fast-track its passage on the final day of formal sessions, the Massachusetts Senate approved “An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care,” a bill that would remove the state’s current 24-week abortion limit and allow abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy, including on viable, healthy unborn children.

“‘An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care’ endangers one patient and completely overlooks another in a gruesome and violent assault on human rights,” said Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

The bill now sits on Governor Maura Healey’s desk. She has the authority to sign it, veto it, or return it with amendments. Governor Healey has only one week to act.

The bill would:

• Remove Massachusetts’ current 24-week abortion limit.
• Allow abortions later in pregnancy for healthy babies or healthy mothers based only on a physician’s “professional judgment.”
• Eliminate the current hospital requirement for complex late-term abortions.
• Expand access to abortions at a stage when unborn children may be capable of feeling pain and surviving outside the womb.

“Late-term abortions present a number of significant risks to women, which is why the procedures have long been performed in hospitals. There is one reason why pro-abortion activists want to remove hospitals from abortion policy, and it has nothing to do with women’s care or safety,” Flynn said.

“Not one legislator who voted for this has been brave enough to acknowledge the truth, the inconvenient fact that this bill allows heinous dismemberment abortions on perfectly healthy and viable babies. It is accepted science that an unborn baby’s nervous system is developed enough at 24 weeks of pregnancy so that the baby can feel pain. By passing this bill, Massachusetts lawmakers have decided that an abortionist can crush the skull of any infant then tear that baby apart, limb by limb.” Flynn stated.

We are calling on Governor Healey to reject this extreme expansion of abortion access and protect both women and unborn children.

Hundreds of Massachusetts residents have already contacted Governor Healey urging her to veto this bill. If you have not yet taken action, now is the time.

The Legislature has made its decision. Now the responsibility rests with Governor Healey. Time is running out. She must hear from Massachusetts residents before she makes her decision.