On Late-Term Abortion, Massachusetts Removes the Fig Leaf
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed a law explicitly legalizing abortion throughout pregnancy, that is, to the moment of birth. State law had already allowed it in several circumstances, the most capacious being whenever a physician considered it necessary to preserve a patient’s mental health. The new law gets rid of this essentially meaningless language about circumstances. It now says that “an abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional........
