Democrat Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts failed to answer The Federalist when asked whether she will sign H.B. 5595, a new abortion bill passed by both the state Senate and House last week. The Federalist questioned her on whether she intended to sign the bill that would make abortions legal through all nine months and received no response.
The law would remove the state’s current 24-week abortion ban and make abortion legal up to the very moment of birth. The current law allowing abortion until 24 weeks is already extreme: At 24 weeks, babies are already capable of hearing, tasting, and remembering stimuli; their facial features are almost fully formed, and they can survive outside the womb with medical help. Any woman for any reason will be able to get an abortion based on a doctor’s “professional judgment.”
