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Posted on 11/14/2026 2:17:52 AM PST by Morgana
A potential miracle is happening in Massachusetts that shows that abortions – even in the worst of situations – are completely unnecessary.
When Gov. Maura Healey signed an emergency preamble Nov. 6 putting a new full-term abortion law into immediate effect, she said the emergency was supposedly 9 disabled babies who needed to be killed in late-term abortions.
But 11 Massachusetts families have offered to adopt all nine of those babies – making the abortions totally unnecessary.
Healey’s action overrode a signature campaign by more than 113,000 constituents that had temporarily suspended the new abortions up to birth law so a potential ballot measure to repeal it could appear on the 2028 ballot.
Hours later, Kathleen Melendy, Massachusetts State Director of the pro-abortion group Reproductive Equity Now, said in a public statement that “at least nine Massachusetts patients facing devastating pregnancy complications have been denied compassionate abortion care here in the Commonwealth while waiting for the law to take effect.”
After hearing that, pro-life advocates quickly got to work.
The Compassionate Care Coalition partnered with Wicker & Reed, a private adoption agency based at His Providence Church in Swansea, in response. Since Nov. 6, the agency has connected with 11 families who are licensed or in the process of becoming licensed to adopt in Massachusetts. All are ready and willing to welcome the babies, including those with serious medical needs whose lives may be short.
“We believe the most compassionate path is one where every mother is supported and every baby, however short their life, knows only love, warmth and comfort,” said Sam Miele, chairman of the Compassionate Care Coalition.
Wicker & Reed is working with local churches and donors to cover birth-related and adoption expenses and to walk alongside any mother through pregnancy and delivery.
The mother’s health and her doctors’ care remain first in every case, the groups said. All 11 families are prepared to love and care for the babies for as long as they live.
Kim Gagne, executive director of Wicker & Reed, said the agency has met with many women deciding among abortion, adoption and parenting. Over the past two years, it can identify only one such pregnancy that ended in a baby dying in abortion.
Many calls involve late-term pregnancies, and women who had been offered late-term abortions elsewhere have chosen adoption after meeting with the agency.
“Our hope at Wicker & Reed is that women never feel alone in their pregnancy and that choosing life always remains an option,” Gagne said.
The Compassionate Care Coalition called on Reproductive Equity Now to connect the nine mothers with Wicker & Reed so each knows the full range of options and that families, care and support are available.
Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life and vice chair of the Compassionate Care Coalition, said Healey ignored the voices of more than 113,000 constituents by claiming an emergency existed.
She described the cases as “nine unborn infants whose lives needed to end, nine mothers who’d been convinced they needed to undergo late-term abortions.”
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