Abortion On Demand Up To Birth

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Abortion On Demand Up To Birth
August 11, 2026 / Jack Marshall

I have two simple questions for pro-abortion (or perhaps “pro mothers 
and doctors being able to kill viable infants at will” is a more 
accurate label…a bit long, I admit) advocates.

How can you honestly and sincerely defend the new Massachusetts abortion 
law? If you can, how do you look yourself in the mirror or sleep at night?

Abortion will now be allowed at any time before birth in Massachusetts 
after Governor Maura Healey (D, or course: what other party would do 
this?) eliminated the state’s abortion limits yesterday. Previously, the 
Bay State had allowed abortion only up until 24 weeks. Now a fully 
developed unborn infant can be killed any time during the 40-week 
gestation cycle, even second before birth. That means that the child 
could be delivered via C-section and instantly be protected by law as a 
living human being, but an unborn infant at the exact same state of 
development and fully viable can be murdered in the womb after the 
mother’s water has broken and contractions have begun.

To be fair, now, the home of my birth and happy childhood isn’t the only 
barbaric state with such an immoral law. Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, 
Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and the 
District of Columbia of course, also believe that being able to kill 
living and viable infants in the womb is a human “right.” Peter Singer, 
the Princeton ethics professor, once caused an uproar when he said that 
as long as we were allowing abortions up to birth, why not let the 
mother see her baby first after it is born and then have the option to 
kill it? He was right: morally and ethically, either homicide is exactly 
the same. The distinction between born and unborn at that point is 
arbitrary and a legal fiction, created to let mothers feel better about 
a monstrous act.