Massachusetts governor signs sweeping abortion bill – all the way to birth

A blue state’s new law on abortion fulfilled what Democrats have long denied and begged the question amid backlash, “Why stop at birth?”

Slippery slope denialism has repeatedly found leftist arguing that the “right” to murder unborn babies should be granted because abortion is “safe, legal and rare” and “necessary health care.” Monday, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) sparked outrage as her state became the 10th to allow the practice with no gestational restrictions as she claimed to “stand with women.”

Passed last month in the state House, the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act was signed by the self-styled Catholic living an openly homosexual lifestyle curing a ceremony surrounded by smiling sycophants.

“I’ve heard heartbreaking stories from women and families who were preparing to welcome a healthy baby into their family, only to receive devastating news later in their pregnancy,” said Healey in a statement. “Instead of being able to rely on the doctors they knew and trusted at home, they were forced to travel hundreds of miles and pay out of their pockets while navigating unimaginable grief.”

“That should never happen in Massachusetts,” furthered the governor. “This law continues our efforts to have the strongest abortion protections in the country because in Massachusetts, we believe health care decisions should be made between women and their doctors.”

Expected to take effect 90 days from the signing, Massachusetts joined Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont in allowing abortion up to birth having previously prohibited the deadly medical procedure after 24 weeks with limited exceptions.

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Healey contended, “I stand with women. My opponents do not,” unless, apparently, the women in question were yet to be born.

Prior to her signing the bill, and after it had been bumped to the state Senate, the bishops of Massachusetts released a statement speaking to their “moral responsibility to present and uphold Catholic teaching and the sacred God-given dignity of every human life from conception to the natural death.”

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a ‘criminal’ practice … gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life.”

In a previous example of the church issuing corrective action of an elected official, at the same time the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision had been leaked previewing the ultimate overturn of Roe v. Wade, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) found her own push to codify abortion into federal law as cause for San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to publicly bar her from receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion.

Among those speaking out against the new law, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser pointed out in a statement about the tens of thousands of unborn “barbarically dismembered limb by limb and torn apart every single year,” that the United States is one of only eight countries in the world to allow abortion at all, let alone up to birth.

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Those countries are Australia, Canada, China, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam. China is the only other nation to allow abortion up to birth.

As others sounded off with disgust over what were described as “crimes against humanity,” The Babylon Bee CEO begged the question, “Why stop at birth? The only thing birth changes is the child’s physical location.”

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Kevin Haggerty

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