Earlier today, Governor Healey signed bill H.5595 into law, allowing elective abortion in Massachusetts up until birth. Our initial response follows below, along with a new resource: information on late-term abortion and support options for women.

“We encourage those celebrating Governor Healey’s politically-motivated signature to learn not only about late-term and ‘dismemberment’ abortions, many of which Massachusetts taxpayers will fund, but also about perinatal hospice, palliative care options and other resources available to women faced with devastating, but never hopeless, fetal diagnoses,” said Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

“Legalizing elective abortion up to birth on healthy mothers and healthy, pain-capable unborn children is not about protecting the doctor-patient relationship,” Flynn said. “It is about abortionists normalizing the deaths of fully-developed infants and pressuring vulnerable women to permit their unborn children to die in heinous acts of violence. These abortions represent among the most severe human rights abuses permitted in only a few places around the world, including China and North Korea.”

“When people learn the gruesome details about late-term abortion, if their conscience is well-formed, they will be compelled to oppose it; we welcome those who wish to help us educate our well-meaning legislators and voters who elect them. Passive indifference to inhumane late-term abortion is to look the other way, a choice for complacency instead of a determination to advance human rights. History shows what that indifference means for people who society classifies as less than human and not worthy of our protection under the law,” Flynn said. “Unfortunately for the women of Massachusetts and their unborn babies, history repeats itself.”

For women considering late-term abortion, we want to make sure they know they have options. We offer information about resources and alternatives through our Late-Term Abortion Hub.