Posted on 11/07/2026 7:31:46 PM PST by Morgana
It’s now legal to kill babies up to birth in Massachusetts.
Gov. Maura Healey on Friday used an emergency preamble to put into effect a law that permits abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy based solely on an abortionist wanting to sell an abortion that kills a baby up to birth.
Her decision overrides a citizen petition that gathered more than 113,000 signatures to suspend and potentially repeal the measure.
The filing came just two days before Chapter 188 of the Acts of 2026 was scheduled to take effect on Nov. 8.
By declaring the law an emergency, Healey blocks the referendum signatures from suspending it while the repeal process moves forward.
Massachusetts Citizens for Life and its partners in the Compassionate Care Coalition had collected the signatures—nearly double the number needed to halt the law pending a 2028 ballot question—and had urged the governor not to intervene.
Under the prior statute, abortions at or after 24 weeks were supposedly restricted to rare cases – though the law could be flouted to essentially allow abortions up to birth. The law Healey signed makes abortions up to birth official.
The new law replaces those limits with language stating that “an abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional judgment of the physician.” Pro-life advocates have described the change as removing basic protections for viable unborn children and allowing abortions through all nine months of pregnancy.
“Governor Healey’s preamble reflects an utter disregard for the men and women she was elected to represent,” said Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life in an email to LifeNews.com.
“In a matter of a few weeks, more than 113,000 of her constituents went out of their way to oppose a highly controversial, deeply consequential, law that blindsided legislators and voters alike. Healey ignored their questions and concerns on August 10, and she has once again prevented any dialogue. She has not sufficiently explained the ‘emergency’ that warrants her undemocratic rejection of the people’s will, because such an emergency does not exist, only weakness on her part. Healey clearly demonstrates today how beholden she really is to the Massachusetts abortion lobby.”
Sam Miele, chairman of the Compassionate Care Coalition and director of Massachusetts Family Action, said the people of Massachusetts “did not ask for abortion through all nine months, and in a matter of weeks they made that clear.”
Michael King, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, stated that “Chapter 188 strips away the most basic protections for the most vulnerable among us.”
The referendum effort continues. Massachusetts Citizens for Life and coalition partners are preparing a two-year public education campaign leading to the November 2028 ballot, when voters will decide whether to repeal the law.
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That’s only because she couldn’t make it legal up to HS graduation.
Don’t give them ideas!
That’s ok, God doesn’t forget.
People voted for this but threw a tantrum over high gas prices.
Souless Dyke....I loathe the state (I grew up in)...and the politics of the formerly decent commonwealth. May she receive the full wrath of God as she is a demonic C___. Why vote when the dykes and faggots are going to do what they want? Why is no one suing the state for trampling what the voters decided? Same thing occured out in Washington state(Seattle0 as they disreguarded a vote by the citizens and did what they wanted too.
Why stop at birth?
Why not abortions up to Governorship?
Implementation by public referendum vote.
Next: post-birth abortions.
Psalm 94:3
O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
We’re seeing women really are the bloodthirsty sex.
Men, if they wanted to, could easily wipe out virtually all of the human race. We dont. We are as a group very self controlled given OUR testosterone levels.
Women with far less testosterone but far more estrogen and mood altering hormones, seem to be finding any excuse avaioable to excuse their murderous tendencies they no longer seem to be able to keep under wraps.
True, but thats not a valid cop out to let everything turn into hell on earth.
I don’t understand why she would bring that future judgement of approving deaths of livable babies on herself? And seem glad about it?
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