Massachusetts already had some of the most lax abortion laws in the country, allowing it up to 24 weeks — a stage in pregnancy in which over 10,000 babies are born and survive each year in the United States. Gov. Maura Healey didn’t think that was good enough. This week, surrounded by a gaggle of gleeful young women, she signed a law barring any gestational limits on abortion.
Massachusetts joins nine other states that occupy an extreme position on this issue, even by international standards, where only 15 countries permit elective abortion past 15 weeks. Sixty-five percent of countries that allow elective abortion limit it to 12 weeks or less.
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