Up to birth. Maybe we should extend to kindergarten to see first report card.

Massachusetts will allow abortion up to delivery after Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Monday extending abortion protections.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/abortion/massachusetts-revises-abortion-law-extending-up-to-birth/

The question is more like : why wait so long to abort ?

If it has some disease of genetic malfunction, you would know this

way before the 9th month.

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

Up to birth. Maybe we should extend to kindergarten to see first report card.

Why not up to teenage years ....... then we could dispose of all the obvious failures?

National Socialists, liberals, feminism, eugenics all part of the same game .......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

Edited August 13Aug 13 by BritManToo

"The law is intended for families facing medical complications later in a pregnancy. It allows families to abort their babies in the state rather than traveling out of state."

From the original link.

Another subject presented in a distorted manner. Abortions are still restricted in accordance with professional and medical parameters. In Massachusetts, a person cannot obtain an abortion in late term without a valid medical reason.

All that the law does is ensure that in the event that the fetus is dead, or unlikely to live upon delivery or presents a fatal risk to the mother, that the fetus can be removed. It also allows intervention to protect the viability of other fetuses in the event of multiple pregnancies. That is all that it does. Physicians will not do late term abortions for the sake of vanity or on a whim.

People will get all up in arms over the headline while voting to eliminate SNAP, daycare, Head Start, and any other program that benefits infants and children.

A very misleading and deliberately provocative headline! Good to see the facts being posted here by more informed members. 👏

13 minutes ago, Front Row said:

People will get all up in arms over the headline while voting to eliminate SNAP, daycare, Head Start, and any other program that benefits infants and children.

Somali fraud daycare should be eliminated.

19 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Somali fraud daycare should be eliminated.

Daycare Somali fraud should be eliminated.

Fixed it for you.

And thusly, you won’t get any argument from me.

2 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Another subject presented in a distorted manner. Abortions are still restricted in accordance with professional and medical parameters. In Massachusetts, a person cannot obtain an abortion in late term without a valid medical reason.

All that the law does is ensure that in the event that the fetus is dead, or unlikely to live upon delivery or presents a fatal risk to the mother, that the fetus can be removed. It also allows intervention to protect the viability of other fetuses in the event of multiple pregnancies. That is all that it does. Physicians will not do late term abortions for the sake of vanity or on a whim.

So a doctors note makes it OK. That's what this is. Just like medical professionals who mutilate children.

1 minute ago, EVENKEEL said:

So a doctors note makes it OK. That's what this is. Just like medical professionals who mutilate children.

You can always find a doctor who will kill a fetus.

Just like you can always find a doctor to prescribe opiates.

40% of all fetus in the USA are aborted, that's just insane.

The abortionists keep upping the bar, what's next, the killing of babies after they are born?

Over-hyped right wing noise. The decision does not allow third trimester elective abortions.

The law specifically says that it means patients experiencing serious pregnancy complications can receive medically appropriate care.

It means a doctor has to decide if the situation is seriously going to affect the mother's life.

• Families facing catastrophic late‑pregnancy diagnoses will no longer be forced to travel out of state.

• Keeps medical decisions between patients and doctors, not politicians.

• Seen as a safeguard against restrictive laws in other states after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

• Governor Healey emphasized stories of “anguish and heartache” from families who needed care beyond 24 weeks. 

Horrific under any circumstances that abortions have to be carried out......but this seems eminently more sensible than the previous law.

14 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Over-hyped right wing noise. The decision does not allow third trimester elective abortions.

It sure as fork does. You just need a dr to ok it.

26 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

40% of all fetus in the USA are aborted, that's just insane.

Yes, not only insane but completely made up.

27 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

You can always find a doctor who will kill a fetus.

Just like you can always find a doctor to prescribe opiates.

40% of all fetus in the USA are aborted, that's just insane.

Actually around 20%.Charlie Kirk talked about it a lot.

Edited August 13Aug 13 by fredwiggy

14 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

It sure as fork does. You just need a dr to ok it.

'I'll take things that don't happen other than in my imagination for 500 please Alex'

41 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

It sure as fork does. You just need a dr to ok it.

Doctors that are restricted elsewhere.

3 hours ago, stevenl said:

"The law is intended for families facing medical complications later in a pregnancy. It allows families to abort their babies in the state rather than traveling out of state."

From the original link.

It also protects the doctors from prosecution for providing medically necessary treatment.

Didn't Trump "abort" 168 elementary school girls in Minab, Iran a few months ago?

On, that's different in the callously indifferent minds of MAGAs.

Leaving it up to a healthcare provider in Massachusetts,This is another systemic progressive policy flaw,women will go healthcare provider shopping the same as judge shopping.

Thank god I had sense enough to leave when I did,I left a cemetery plot, a ex wife turned gay and the last time voting for a Dem(Obama), in that mixed up, bobbled up ,shook up world location, Massachusetts.

Edited August 13Aug 13 by riclag

Governor Maura Healey signed legislation that removed the state's previous 24-week gestational limit.

Female governor. That explains this horror.

Good move by Massachusetts.

Ignore the totally deceptive maga fascist spin about that this actually is.

They are really disgusting.

27 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

So you're for aborting just before birth. Maybe you'd prefer after the first report card.

I'm for aborting made-up MAGA squeal fests, like the one you started.

Thank you to @Patong2021 for the 'game, set and match' post. No more needs to be said on the matter:

"Another subject presented in a distorted manner. Abortions are still restricted in accordance with professional and medical parameters. In Massachusetts, a person cannot obtain an abortion in late term without a valid medical reason.

All that the law does is ensure that in the event that the fetus is dead, or unlikely to live upon delivery or presents a fatal risk to the mother, that the fetus can be removed. It also allows intervention to protect the viability of other fetuses in the event of multiple pregnancies. That is all that it does. Physicians will not do late term abortions for the sake of vanity or on a whim."

Edited August 13Aug 13 by BLMFem

Other States and Jurisdictions with No Gestational Limits

• Alaska

• Colorado

• Maryland

• Massachusetts

• Michigan

• Minnesota

• New Jersey

• New Mexico

• Oregon

• Vermont

• District of Columbia

Of these 10 states 9 are Democrat run. We can only conclude that Democrats have no morals and are completely beholden to their feminist women. Disgraceful to be a Democrat.

6 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Up to birth. Maybe we should extend to kindergarten to see first report card.

Massachusetts will allow abortion up to delivery after Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Monday extending abortion protections.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/abortion/massachusetts-revises-abortion-law-extending-up-to-birth/

How old are you, EVENKEEL? Just curious.

4 hours ago, connda said:

Why not up until adulthood. I'm thinking that the governors needs a good aborting.

Could we please including aborting nations too? Preferably up to 250 years old.

21 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Disgraceful to be a Democrat.

It's disgraceful to politicize this as you do and do several others on this thread. When the text says Massachusetts and 9 other states allows abortion "up to birth," it simply means the state government has removed strict time cutoffs. Instead of a one-size-fits-all legal deadline of 24 weeks, the state now relies on doctors to use their medical expertise to handle severe, late-stage pregnancy complications on a case-by-case basis.

The way right wingers political nuts describe this can mistakenly make it sound like a person can simply choose to have an abortion at 39 weeks just because they changed their mind, as its votes they clamber for not the health of mother and child. In reality, abortions late in pregnancy are incredibly rare. They almost exclusively happen because something has gone terribly wrong medically. The remaining states of the US could take a lead from this and get in line with the modern world where up to birth abortions in emergencies are standard practice.