Pro-abortion Democratic Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts, a renegade Catholic who once had an audience with Pope Francis, signed into law a bill that essentially legalizes infanticide.
The Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act removes all gestational limits on terminating unborn life. Bay State women can now end the lives of their children up to the moment of birth.
Neither Healey’s signing the bill nor its easy passage in the Massachusetts legislature is a surprise. Yet the reaction of the women who surrounded Healey when she signed the death warrant for countless infants has drawn criticism.
As long as I’m Governor, abortion will remain safe, legal and accessible in Massachusetts.
The law was marketed by Healey and her supporters as “medically appropriate care.”
“I’ve heard heartbreaking stories from women and families who were preparing to welcome a healthy baby into their family, only to receive devastating news later in pregnancy,” said Healey. “Instead of being able to rely on the doctors they knew and trusted at home, they were forced to travel hundreds of miles and pay out of their pockets while navigating unimaginable grief. That should never happen in Massachusetts.”
Healey’s news release included a statement from Lynn M. Yee, vice mistress of the Health Policy and Advocacy Committee of Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
“The society is pleased to see the passage of an act prioritizing patient access to care,” Yee said. “This act eliminates restrictions on abortion care later in pregnancy. As experts in high-risk pregnancy, we are trained to provide safe, effective, and compassionate care — including abortion care — for patients facing complicated pregnancies.”
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine states its mission is “to optimize equitable perinatal outcomes for all people who desire or experience pregnancy.”
Prior to the bill’s becoming law, Massachusetts prohibited abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. Now, 10 states allow what amounts to infanticide.
In 2015, former abortionist Anthony Levantino, who performed more than 1,200 abortions until he could no longer live with himself, explained in testimony to the House Judiciary Committee: “A second trimester D&E abortion is a blind procedure. The baby can be in any orientation or position inside the uterus. Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp and grasping anything you can. At twenty-four weeks gestation, the uterus is thin and soft so be careful not to perforate or puncture the walls. Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard — really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about six inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs.”
