Healey’s abortion law is unconscionable

Résumé détaillé

It was bad enough the bill passed without a public process. But it is even more concerning that the governor rejected the concerns of hundreds of thousands of voters.

On Friday, Governor Healey announced she was declaring an “emergency” in order to block the legal initiative to suspend the law the Legislature passed over the summer to allow abortions until the possible normal time of birth (“Healey puts abortion law into effect early,” Metro, Nov. 6). Previously, except in extraordinary situations like saving the life of a mother, an abortion was not possible after the 24th week of pregnancy.

In 2024, 68,000 births were recorded in Massachusetts. Approximately 6,000 of those babies were born preterm, about 9 percent. The law approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor would allow the mothers of those 6,000 babies, in consultation with a physician, to not bring them to term.

It was bad enough, given the persistent doubt about when life begins, for the new more liberal bill to have passed so quickly. But it is even more concerning that just days after her reelection, the governor should ignore hundreds of thousands of voters who petitioned to delay the implementation of the law and were demanding greater consideration.

Maybe it would have been different if each of the 6,000 babies born in 2024 had a vote.

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