Posted on 10/30/2019 12:40:51 PM PDT by Morgana
Massachusetts abortion activists upped the pressure this week on state lawmakers to pass a bill legalizing abortions for basically any reason up to birth.
Masquerading their deadly agenda as a fight for women’s health care, state Attorney General Maura Healey, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and city councilors Michelle Wu and Lydia Edwards launched a social media campaign Monday to support the bill, The Boston Globe reports.
Dubbed the Roe Act, the bill would eliminate basically all regulations and restrictions on abortion in Massachusetts. It would allow abortions up to birth, even if there is no physical threat to the mother’s life, and could put young sexual abuse victims at greater risk by eliminating the state parental consent requirement.
Massachusetts Citizens for Life said the bill allows for “passive infanticide” as well by not requiring medical care for a baby born alive after an abortion.
The pro-abortion campaign, paid for by NARAL Massachusetts, attempts to hide the bill’s extremism in a series of videos and ads. They are running this week on Politico, Facebook, YouTube and MASSterlist, according to Boston Magazine.
“Massachusetts, we have to do better,” state Attorney General Maura Healey said in one video. “Healthcare decisions should be made between a patient and her doctor. Anything medical should never be political.”
Another video features Kate Carson, a middle school teacher from Boston, who traveled out of state for a late-term abortion, according to the magazine.
“I grew up in this state really feeling like I could always get the medical care I needed, and I always felt so secure in that,” Carson said. “And then my baby was sick, and they just said, ‘I’m sorry but you have to go somewhere else.’”
Carson was not referring to medical care for her baby, though. She chose to “go somewhere else” for a late-term abortion. But abortion is not health care, nor is it necessary in such circumstances. Many hospitals now provide prenatal palliative care and hospice for unborn babies diagnosed with fatal illnesses. These programs treat the mother and unborn baby with the dignity and care that they deserve, allowing the family to cherish their short time together, providing resources to help manage the pain, and planning for their baby’s care and death.
Abortion activists are trying sell the bill to the public as a reform “ensuring that anyone, regardless of age, income, or insurance, can access safe, legal abortion,” the magazine reports.
But pro-life advocates are pushing back with strong concerns for the protection of mothers as well as babies. Without a parental consent law, young girls could be put at greater risk of coercion and abuse.
“We need to ensure that children have a responsible adult consenting to serious medical procedures — as parents are required to sign consents to administer Tylenol in school, or have tonsils removed or ears pierced,” said Kerry Pound, a doctor and the vice president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, according to the Globe.
The pro-life organization posed the scenario of a pregnant 13-year-old who could be abandoned to her sexual abuser and forced into an abortion without her parents’ knowledge. Parental consent laws help protect young girls from abuse and help ensure that they make an informed decision before ending their baby’s life.
Pro-life organizations also warned taxpayers that the legislation allocates money through the “Healthy Start” program to pay for abortions through all nine months of pregnancy. It also would require that all taxpayer-funded health plans cover abortions.
On Wednesday, Massachusetts Citizens for Life, the Massachusetts Family Institute and other pro-life organizations plan to hold a press conference in the State House to oppose the Roe Act and affirm the need for pro-life options for women and children.
The bill is similar to legislation that passed earlier this year in New York, Vermont, Rhode Island and Illinois.
A recent poll by Susan B. Anthony List found strong opposition to the legislation. According to the poll, 62 percent of Massachusetts voters oppose late-term abortions, including 49 percent of Democrat and 66 percent of independent voters. The same number, 62 percent, also support the current state law requiring parental consent before a girl under 18 has an abortion, the poll found.
ACTION: Contact Massachusetts state lawmakers to oppose the bill.
Sixty million and counting.
I’m with Chappelle. If you can choose to kill your baby, then the father shouldn’t have to pay child support. Either we have a human or we don’t (and we do).
That is murder.
Any length of time after the abortion? 10 minutes? 10 hours? 10 months? 10 years? 60 years? 80 years? 90 years?
We are living in a world gone insane. Violent, perverted....ultimately insane.
Crickets!
Shouldn’t the father be allowed a voice in the gruesome decision to murder a newborn baby?
F**king ghouls.
If you look closely at the southern border of MA, you’ll see what is called the “Southwick Jog”. It is a little peninsula of land that protrudes into CT. The joke is that this jog is what anchors MA to America.
Let’s give the “Jog” to CT and push this demonically possessed state into the sea.
Don't worry, that won't stop them... shame is what I feel for my home state.
Making the Nazis way of doing things legit.
I contend that Roe v. Wade legalized a new form of homicide, id est, abortion. Therefore, it is not murder, it is legal homicide. Thanks Leftists. /s
Actually using a pistol prenatal would harm the mother. Instead they just chop up a living human baby.
I apologize for my hyperbole but it only is to show what these people do.
These people are just plain damn evil.
No matter what calamitous act of God happens to Massachusetts, it can’t be too calamitous.
This is the most vile bill proposed in Massachusetts. It not only okays the killing of children up to birth, but it allows the abortionists to deny medical treatment to children who are alive at birth so that they will die which is execution of a living human being. That is flat out murder. If the people of Massachusetts allow this, I have no more use for the people of Massachusetts. They are slobs.
Massachusetts Bill Would Legalize Abortions Up to Birth, Allow Infanticide LIFE NEWS ^ | October 30, 2019 | Micaiah Bilger
Massachusetts abortion activists upped the pressure this week on state lawmakers to pass a bill legalizing abortions for basically any reason up to birth. Masquerading their deadly agenda as a fight for women’s health care, state Attorney General Maura Healey, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and city councilors Michelle Wu and Lydia Edwards launched a social media campaign Monday to support the bill, The Boston Globe reports. Dubbed the Roe Act, the bill would eliminate basically all regulations and restrictions on abortion in Massachusetts. It would allow abortions up to birth, even if there is no physical threat to the mother’s life, and could put young sexual abuse victims at greater risk by eliminating the state parental consent requirement. Massachusetts Citizens for Life said the bill allows for “passive infanticide” as well by not requiring medical care for a baby born alive after an abortion.
The actual bill confirms this:
Bill S.1209 191st (Current) An Act to remove obstacles and expand abortion access By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1209) of Harriette L. Chandler, Michael J. Barrett, James T. Welch, Rebecca L. Rausch and other members of the General Court for legislation to remove obstacles and expand abortion access. Public Health
SECTION 1. Chapter 112 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 12K, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, and inserting in place thereof the following section:
Section 12K. As used in section twelve L to section twelve U, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:
Abortion, any medical treatment intended to induce the termination of a clinically diagnosable pregnancy except for the purpose of producing a live birth. The term abortion does not include miscarriage management.
Hospital , a hospital as defined in section fifty-two of chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws, and duly licensed under the provisions of section fifty-one of chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws.
The Commonwealth shall not interfere with a person’s personal decision and ability to prevent, commence, terminate, or continue their own pregnancy consistent with this chapter
Physician , an individual lawfully authorized to practice medicine within the Commonwealth.
Pregnancy, means the presence of an implanted human embryo or fetus within a person’s uterus.
SECTION 2. Said Chapter 112 of the General Laws is hereby further amended by striking out Sections 12L through 12U, inclusive, as so appearing, and inserting in place thereof the following sections: Section 12L. The Commonwealth shall not interfere with a person’s personal decision and ability to prevent, commence, terminate, or continue their own pregnancy consistent with this chapter. The Commonwealth shall not restrict the use of medically appropriate methods of abortion or the manner in which medically appropriate abortion is provided.
Section 12M. A physician , acting within their lawful scope of practice, may perform an abortion when, according to the physician’s best medical judgment, the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy , as defined in section 12K of this chapter. A physician, acting within their lawful scope of practice, may perform an abortion when, according to the physician’s best medical judgment based on the facts of the patient’s case, the patient is beyond twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy and the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or physical or mental health, or in cases of lethal fetal anomalies, or where the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the uterus . Medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors—physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the person’s age—relevant to the well-being of the patient. 12N. Prior to performing an abortion, a physician shall obtain the pregnant patient’s written informed consent on a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health. A pregnant person seeking an abortion shall sign the consent form before the abortion is performed, except in an emergency requiring immediate action. The consent form and any other forms shall be confidential and may not be released to any person other than to the pregnant person to whom such documents relate or the operating physician, except by the pregnant patient’s written consent; provided, however, that this requirement shall not impose any waiting period between the signing of the consent form and the performance of the abortion.
12O. The department of public health shall have the authority to require aggregate reports regarding induced termination of pregnancy pursuant to sections twenty-four A and twenty-five A of chapter one hundred and eleven.
SECTION 3. Section 12F of Chapter 112 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 20, the words “abortion or”.
SECTION 4. Section 10E of Chapter 118E of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 17 to 19, inclusive, clause (i) and inserting in place thereof the following clause:- (i) all medically necessary care relative to pregnancy, including but not limited to abortion, care to maintain health during the course of the pregnancy and delivery, and newborn hospital care;
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/SD109
So the "new and improved provision" for infanticide is that "A physician may perform an abortion...beyond twenty-four weeks" when "the the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or physical or mental health...in the light of all factors—physical, emotional, psychological, familial."
"Physical or mental health" during 9 weeks and beyond is so broad and subjective a provision that you could fly a A380 thru it.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. (Proverbs 8:36)
And, the "consent form and any other forms shall be confidential and may not be released to any person other than to the pregnant person." Meaning it takes two to conceive life but only one need consent ti its murder. Of course once the child is born, the Left wants the mother to be able to choose to give "gender affirming care" (change the child's gender I.D. by her influence) contrary to what the child biologically is, followed by physical mutilation! The work of demons.
ACTION: Contact Massachusetts state lawmakers to oppose the bill.
Harriette.Chandler@masenate.gov 617) 722-1544More
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