Abortion up to birth is now legal in Massachusetts. While previously abortion in the state was limited to specific exceptions after 24 weeks, on August 10, Governor Maura Healey signed into law the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, removing all restrictions on abortion access other than “the …
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Several Massachusetts state lawmakers broke with their party and rejected a new law that legalizes killing unborn babies in abortions up until the moment of birth.
Even Democrat Massachusetts Lawmakers Call State's New Abortion-Until-Birth Law ‘Barbaric’ Nine Democrat Massachusetts state representatives stood up to 123 of their party colleagues by voting against a bill legalizing abortion up until the moment of birth.
In Massachusetts, lawmakers have replaced a rigid late-pregnancy rule with a clinical one: after 24 weeks, abortion decisions rest on a physician’s professional judgment, not a legislative checklist. The policy change is narrow in volume but sweeping in design; it relocates rare, catastrophic cases …
Abortion up to birth is now legal in Massachusetts. While previously abortion in the state was limited to specific exceptions after 24 weeks, on August 10, Governor Maura Healey signed into law the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, removing all restrictions on abortion access other than “the …
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