By For years, conservatives who warned Democrats were moving toward abortion laws with effectively no gestational limit were accused of fearmongering.
Now Massachusetts has done it.
Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, who claims to be a Catholic, signed H.5595 into law Monday, eliminating the state’s specific restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks and replacing them with a standard based on the professional judgment of the physician performing the procedure, writes Fox News.
The law also eliminates the requirement that abortions after 24 weeks be performed in a hospital.
Under the previous law, abortions after 24 weeks were allowed only when necessary to preserve the life or physical or mental health of the mother, or in cases involving a lethal or severe fetal diagnosis.
Those specific limits are gone.
Instead, the decision rests with the doctor.
In Massachusetts, the day a child is born, Dad must unload his handgun and lock the ammo away separately every time he leaves the bedroom to take a piss. “For child safety.”
But, the day before that, Mom can call Dr. Roto Rooter to brutally dismember the kid. https://t.co/PN8Xc4FnUo
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) August 11, 2026
That matters because Republicans have spent years being told that warnings about abortion through the final stages of pregnancy were misleading or exaggerated. Late-term abortions were rare, Democrats argued, and existing laws contained medical or viability safeguards.
Massachusetts just removed some of those safeguards.
This is what a 34-week-old baby looks like outside the womb.
In Massachusetts, you can now abort an unborn baby at this age.
The only difference is the child’s location. pic.twitter.com/ZN4iipOH7P
— Anna Lulis (@annamlulis) August 11, 2026
The Democratic-controlled House passed the bill 119-33 on July 22 before lawmakers rushed it through at the end of the legislative session.
Supporters say the change protects the doctor-patient relationship and prevents politicians from dictating medical decisions during complicated pregnancies.
Critics say the practical effect is much broader: Massachusetts no longer has a specific gestational cutoff backed by a defined list of exceptions.
“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.”
She said the law undercuts years of assurances that Democrats were not seeking abortion through the end of pregnancy.
“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.”
Michael King, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, described the law as allowing “abortion at any time of the pregnancy and for any reason, so it is absolutely egregious.”
He also criticized removing the hospital requirement, saying the law would “take this whole process of abortion outside of the hospital. So a doctor could do this perhaps anywhere they think is viable to do this kind of procedure and take out the safeguards of a hospital.”
The Massachusetts law is another sign of how far abortion politics have moved since Dobbs. Democrats have increasingly treated expansive abortion protections as a central political priority, while Republicans have warned that the end point would be laws with few or no meaningful restrictions to killing the unborn.
Those warnings were routinely dismissed as right-wing scare tactics. Massachusetts previously had a 24-week line with defined exceptions after it. Now it doesn’t, and that’s no conspiracy theory. It’s an admission that the left has no consistent definition of life or being a human being.
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