National Right to Life is condemning Gov. Maura Healey’s signing of H.5595, a law that eliminates the state’s remaining statutory limits on abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
“Governor Healey and the Massachusetts Legislature have erased the final protections for unborn children who can feel pain and who could survive outside the womb,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “At the very stage when premature babies are receiving lifesaving care in neonatal intensive care units, Massachusetts will permit abortionists to end the lives of children of the same age—and even older. That is not compassion, and it is not health care.”
National Right to Life and Massachusetts Citizens for Life said they remain committed to protecting mothers and unborn children and opposing the expansion of abortion in Massachusetts.