{"id":386,"date":"2026-08-11T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:06:54","slug":"massachusetts-new-abortion-law-is-normalizing-the-deaths-of-fully-developed-infants-pro-lifers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts\u2019 New Abortion Law is \u2018Normalizing the Deaths of Fully-Developed Infants,\u2019 Pro-Lifers Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts recently became the eleventh state in the nation to allow abortion at any point in a woman\u2019s pregnancy, with Governor Maura Healey signing into law a measure codifying full and complete access to abortion up until birth.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=384\">No, Fauci\u2019s Texts Are Not Proof of a Conspiracy to Hide Vaccine Risks to Pregnant Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bill was touted by Healey and supporters as \u201clegislation strengthening abortion protections in Massachusetts.\u201d Healey went so far as to say, \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life,\u00a0Myrna Maloney Flynn argues that \u201clegalizing elective abortion up to birth on healthy mothers and healthy, pain-capable unborn children is not about protecting the doctor-patient relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is about abortionists normalizing the deaths of fully-developed infants and pressuring vulnerable women to permit their unborn children to die in heinous acts of violence,\u201d she said. \u201cThese abortions represent among the most severe human rights abuses permitted in only a few places around the world, including China and North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill is framed as allowing doctors to use their discretion when providing so-called \u201cabortion care\u201d during late-term pregnancies. It specifically aims to remove any legal uncertainty around what options a woman may have if she is facing medical uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a truly dead heart to celebrate and sign a bill that allows viable babies to be killed in the womb via heart attacks when they could live outside of it. Gov. Maura Healey ignored settled science, human decency, and common sense as her own state\u2019s laws allow a person to be charged with fetal homicide if they end a baby\u2019s life without a mother\u2019s consent,\u201d Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, told <span>National Review<\/span> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins noted the new law runs afoul\u00a0\u2014 logically, if not legally \u2014 of judicial precedents in the state that have affirmed personhood rights for fetuses.<\/p>\n<p>The state supreme court first ruled in 1984 that killing a fetus, in cases of homicide or wrongful death, qualifies as a homicide charge. Similarly, the court upheld that position in a 2023 case, <em><span><span><span>Commonwealth v. Ronchi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span><span><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=382\">Troy Jackson Entered Politics Fighting Foreign Labor. Now He Wants to Abolish ICE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While that ruling stands, the state\u2019s new abortion law\u00a0<span><span><span>removes all of the state\u2019s previous restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The state legislature passed the bill, H.5595, in a landslide 119 to 33 vote, but state Representative Alan Silvia, a Democrat, told NR he voted against the measure because he strongly opposes any attempts to expand access to abortion in his state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy position has been consistent: I believe in protecting human life, including the life of the unborn,\u201d Silvia told <span>National Review<\/span>. \u201cWe go to extraordinary lengths as a society to protect vulnerable life, saving whales and saving strays, yet when it comes to an unborn child, that same sense of protection too often seems to disappear. As a legislator, I cannot support policies that continue to expand abortion, particularly in the later stages of pregnancy. This is not an issue I take lightly, and I understand there are deeply held views on both sides, but I will continue to stand by my convictions and vote accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life groups expressed similar concern with the bill, with some even calling on Republicans to abandon their long-held position that abortion law should be left to the states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should shock the conscience that tens of thousands of unborn Americans are barbarically dismembered limb by limb and torn apart every single year. Sadly, that number will only increase with Gov. Healey\u2019s approval of the Abortion Up Until Birth Bill,\u201d SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. \u201cThe GOP must abandon the \u2018leave it to the states\u2019 position \u2013 a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one \u2013 and advance national protections for unborn children. 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\u2019s ugly chapter of late-term abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins, from Students for Life, issued a similarly emotional appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us have gone into delivery early and held in our arms a baby who could now be killed in Massachusetts,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to wonder how Gov. Healey can sleep at night with virtual infanticide on her conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=380\">Margaret Brennan Shamelessly Pins the CDC Shooting on Right-Wing Purveyors of \u2018Misinformation\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts recently became the eleventh state in the nation to allow abortion at any point in a woman&#8217;s pregnancy, with Governor Maura Healey signing into law a measure codifying full and complete access to abortion up until birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts\u2019 New Abortion Law is \u2018Normalizing the Deaths of Fully-Developed Infants,\u2019 Pro-Lifers Warn - 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