Democrats are pushing to scrap the remaining requirements regarding late-term abortions in Massachusetts.
“It’s insanity,” said James Lyons, a former state representative and past chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, about the latest abortion bill making its way through the legislature. “And it has to stop.”
A long-standing line that most radical abortion legislation rarely crosses is viability outside the womb. The rate of survival for a baby born at 23 weeks of pregnancy stands at 23%-27%, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. At 24 weeks, the survival rate jumps dramatically to 42%-59%.
Advocates for the unborn have described the legislation as promising “an already ominous shadow that will grow even darker over the state.”
On Wednesday, Democrats in the Massachusetts House passed a bill by a vote of 199-33 that would greatly expand abortion access past 24 weeks, effectively making it legal to terminate viable human beings. Advocates for the unborn have emphasized the extreme nature of this legislation and called for the state Senate to kill it outright.
