Massachusetts Madness

The Spirit of America state goes over the edge.

Richard Kirk | September 12, 2026

How the mighty have fallen. Massachusetts, once the home of John Adams, the “Atlas of American independence” and future President of the United States, is now led by Maura Healey, the state’s first lesbian governor and the chief executive who recently signed a bill protecting a woman’s right to abort her baby up to the point of birth. At the signing ceremony, a gaggle of females standing behind her desk applauded enthusiastically. Meanwhile in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a crowd of ladies in pink voiced their enthusiastic support for Lindsay Clancy, who was on trial for strangling the life out of her three children -- Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

Thirty years earlier the distinguished Democrat New York senator and former Harvard professor Patrick Moynihan, who was not a pro-life warrior, compared partial birth abortion to infanticide. One can only imagine Abigail Adams cringing at the thought of her “remember the ladies” request to John being invoked by twenty-first century feminists to cheer unrestricted abortion as health care and to invoke inadequate medical treatment plus postpartum psychosis as a legal excuse for a mom carefully planning and carrying out the extermination of her three children over the span of eighteen minutes.

It at least makes sense that the same state that elected a governor who supports unrestricted abortion also devised an insanity defense putting the burden of proof on the prosecution rather than the defense. In addition, Bay State prosecutors must prove not only that defendants know the difference between right........

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