EDITORIAL: The glee with which the group of women celebrated infanticide with Gov. Maura Healey signing the Bay State’s new abortion legislation provoked a visceral reaction among people of goodwill.
Before this summer, nine states and the District of Columbia, in a rage over the demise of Roe v. Wade, and seemingly vying to win a prize for adopting the most extreme pro-abortion policies on Earth, legalized the killing of babies in the womb at any stage of pregnancy, up to the moment of birth.
Together, Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, D.C., make up a sizable chunk of the country, accounting for more than 13% of the U.S. population.
Yet for some reason, none of those horrific laws elicited anywhere near the shock and outrage that Massachusetts triggered when it joined the abortion-until-birth club on Aug. 10. It’s worth reflecting on why that might be the case.
Massachusetts previously restricted abortion after 24 weeks, on par with the most permissive abortion laws in Europe, but it allowed later-term abortions in cases involving a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis, or a physician’s judgment that the unborn child wouldn’t likely survive outside the
