Massachusetts Just Legalized Abortion Through All Nine Months — and Even Democrats Are Calling It ‘Barbaric’

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a bill this week removing all gestational limits on abortion after 24 weeks, allowing physicians to perform the procedure at any point in a pregnancy based on their own professional judgment. Nine Democratic state representatives voted against it alongside Republicans. The word one of them used was “barbaric.”

That’s a Democrat. In Massachusetts. Calling his own governor’s signature abortion legislation barbaric.

State Rep. Jeffrey Turco put it plainly: “This new law represents an extremist and dangerous position. To be clear, it allows abortion anytime, unrestricted, and in many cases, publicly funded until the moment of birth. The new law is barbaric.”

State Rep. Chris Markey said the bill “creates a very slippery slope” and puts doctors “in a very difficult ethical dilemma, as well as conflicts with the vast majority of my constituents.” His words: “While many are pro-choice, you can still be pro-choice and see this law as going beyond the norms of acceptability.”