What’s a Life Worth in America as Massachusetts Now Allows Abortions Up To Birth
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Massachusetts Governor Healey made headlines last week by ‘expanding abortion access.’
There was just one caveat. With Healey’s bill signing, she now joins nine other states and D.C. to eliminate the gestational age limits for an abortion. Once strictly guarded by four-pronged stopgap legal measures that governed the late-stage practice, the state’s fast-tracked bill now simply reads:
“an abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional judgment of the physician.”
Ah yes…science and doctors know best. What could go wrong?
That’s right, no gestational-age limit in statute, as an abortion can now be legally performed at any point in the pregnancy—up to the time of birth [full term].
70% of the states that allow these procedures implemented the policies within the last four years.
Massachusetts is the latest state to join global beacons of medical freedom like China and North Korea in their quest to allow women more choice, or whatever the political talking point was, to make this act socially palatable.
The big secret critics of such medical procedures point out is that legally, doctors can now terminate a life at or after birth.
For over a decade, bioethicists have tried to argue that up-to-birth and ‘after-birth abortions’ are reasonable, only to receive hard pushback from the medical profession and a proper reframing as biologically and conceptually nonsensical.
Do doctors really perform infanticide…I mean ‘after-birth abortions’? Here was former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam when asked the question during an interview:
“The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable…And then a discussion would ensue.”
In theory, individual providers or facilities can set their own policies or decline to perform these types of after-birth ‘procedures,’ so availability also depends on providers’ willingness.
Let’s start the story of America’s shifting Overton window regarding abortion with Bill Clinton, who coined the term ‘safe, legal and rare’ in an effort to politically coalesce a large swatch of voters under one umbrella as a candidate running for president in the early 90s.
Tulsi Gabbard found out how politically hollow Clinton’s words were when she echoed the same sentiment, words in all, during the 2019 Democratic debate. The media and and pro-abortion groups sprang forth to punish her for being out of touch.
‘Safe and rare’ lost to the modernized ‘proud and common.’ With Governor Healey’s signature, another inflection point is upon us.
While politicians leverage voters with shifting talking points, the medical community has benefited from the practice of abortion.
For decades, fetal tissue from abortion has been used in research. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, cell cultures from fetal tissue were used to develop the polio vaccine and later the measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, whooping cough, tetanus, and hepatitis A vaccines.
Despite these facts, parents with sincere religious beliefs wishing to exempt their children from such vaccinations have often been denied – even if you are in a Catholic school. This is where Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier recently stepped in threatening to pull state funding from
His letter to the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops states:
“As the Catholic Church has acknowledged, many vaccines are manufactured using human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions. The Catholic Church has taught consistently for millennia that “[f]rom the moment of conception, the life of every human being is to be respected in an absolute way” and that “no one can, in any circumstance, claim for himself the right to destroy an innocent human being.”
There has been evidence of black markets in the abortion ‘business.’ In 2015, undercover activists caught Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical research, Deborah Nucatola, appearing to wheel and deal body parts to interested parties.
“I’d say a lot of people want liver…And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps.”
Nucatola continued: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
Subsequent videos show prices being discussed for body parts with former LA Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Mary Gatter.
The medical market took the ultimate hit this year.
In early 2026, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest public funder of biomedical research, announced it was ending research that uses fetal tissue from abortions.
Game over for that avenue at least in the U.S.
The topic of abortion has always been socially sensitive and a political powder keg. The recent Massachusetts bill is yet another affirmative test of those longstanding aspects.
For ten states and D.C., the power to terminate late-stage life now rests in the hands of the physician (and the parent).
The authoritative judgment of medical professionals, supercharged by politics, served humanity so well during the pandemic; I’m sure that, with a topic as heated as abortion, we can now expect a calm and collected approach.
That’s sarcasm.