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MA Enacts Law Allowing Abortion at any Stage of Pregnancy

MA Enacts Law Allowing Abortion at any Stage of Pregnancy

Last updated on: September 16, 2026 at 1:13 pm by Rebecca Hamilton

MA Enacts Law Allowing Abortion at any Stage of Pregnancy 2026-09-16T13:13:28-06:00 Rebecca Hamilton

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Hilarion to his sister Alis, heartiest greetings… I beg and beseech you to take care of the little child, and as soon as we receive wages I will send them to you. If—good luck to you!—you give birth, if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, throw it out. xyrhynchus Papyrus 744

Massachusetts’ state government recently enacted a law that would allow abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Ten states, along with Washington, DC, which have passed similar laws.

This is legalized murder. There is no reason to perform an abortion after the baby reaches the stage of viability.

It may be medically necessary to stop a pregnancy early. The mother’s life can become endangered during the last trimester of pregnancy. Also, there are reasons why stopping the pregnancy before term can be life-saving for the baby, or in the case of pregnancies with multiples, babies.

When that happens, all that is necessary is to deliver the baby or babies and then do everything possible to save the lives of both the mother and the babies.

Abortion after viability always involves directly killing the baby before it’s born. If doctors let the baby be born and then kill it afterwards, they could be charged with murder.

Sometimes, doctors shove a needle through the mother’s abdomen and into the baby’s heart and inject a poison to kill the baby. In the past, some doctors performed the infamous “partial birth abortion,” procedure, which is so grisly I’m not going to describe it.

Any of these procedures would be more dangerous, painful and traumatic to the mother than simply delivering the baby. None of them are necessary to save her life. In fact, since they are more traumatic to her physically that just delivering the baby, they are also more dangerous for her.

Abortion after viability echoes the ancient practice of exposing babies.

Abortion after viability is our modern world’s nearly identical twin of the ancient practice of “exposing” infants after they are born.

India and other countries continue to deal with the practice of murdering baby girls after birth, even today.

Abortion was used so frequently to kill unborn baby girls in India, China and elsewhere that it unbalanced the ratio of male and female young adults. This imbalance reached such an extreme that it made it difficult for young men to find a mate.

In Roman times, the “paterfamilias” or male head of the family, held absolute rule over whether or not babies born into the family would be allowed to live. They often ordered the death of their own children.

The method of murder was to simply discard the infant by putting it outside and leaving it to die, ie, “exposing” it. This was a common practice when the baby was a girl or disabled.

In what is known as the “xyrhynchus Papyrus 744” a Roman soldier named Hilarion, who was stationed in Egypt, wrote a letter to his wife, whom he addressed as his “sister,” instructing her to murder their baby if it was a girl.

Hilarion to his sister Alis, heartiest greetings… I beg and beseech you to take care of the little child, and as soon as we receive wages I will send them to you. If—good luck to you!—you give birth, if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, throw it out.

Early Christians scandalized the Roman world because they rescued these babies who had been left to die. From the very beginning, our faith has taught us that human life is sacred.

People find excuses to kill people who are burdensome to them.

But this propensity to kill our young — and a lot of other innocent people — keeps coming back. The reason why is simply that some human lives can also be a burden to other humans.

Ask anyone who is caring for an elderly parent with dementia.

Ask parents in isolated nuclear families who are forced to each hold down more than one job in order to make ends meet and still balance the demands of raising children.

Ask a rape victim who has been subjected to heinous violence and cruelty, then slandered, disbelieved, shunned, mocked, shamed and abandoned, only to discover that she is pregnant.

The sanctity of human life is a demanding reality that asks a lot of each one of us if we truly take it seriously.

And that is why so many people find so many ways to ignore the humanity of burdensome other people.

Some “pro life” people appear to believe that opposing abortion means you can kill anyone else you want.

One of the saddest things I have ever seen is how so many pro life people, including a lot of “pro life” clergy, twist the message of the sanctity of human life back onto itself.

For decades now, a certain segment of pro life religious people have actively taught that abortion is absolutely and incontrovertibly wrong, even to save the mother’s life. Since the overturn of Roe, they have demonstrated repeatedly that they support killing both the mother and the baby rather than terminate a pregnancy.

They oppose abortion at all times and for any reason. They carry this to the point that they oppose providing life-saving medical care to women who’ve had abortions. They’ll let these women bleed out or die of infections and claim that this is “pro life.”

These self-proclaimed “christians” oppose killing the unborn. But they support killing anybody and everybody else that they deem unworthy of life.

They support cutting off medical care for people with dread diseases like glioblastoma.

They support refusing prenatal care to pregnant women if they are immigrants.

They don’t care if a tyrant’s personal quasi military shoots people in the face or in the back on our city streets.

The truth is, they’re no more pro life than the abortionist. They just have a different set of people they are willing to murder.

Human life is sacred from conception to natural death.

You cannot ignore the humanity of other people because they are unborn.

You cannot ignore the humanity of other people because they are female.

You cannot ignore the humanity of other people because they have dementia.

You cannot ignore the humanity of other people because they are immigrants.

You cannot ignore the humanity of other people because they are poor.

You cannot ignore the humanity of other people because they are female, or male, or ugly, or crazy, or old, or disabled, or Republicans, or Democrats, or homosexuals, or black, or white, or Mexicans, or immigrants, or Muslims, or Evangelicals, or Catholics, or Jews. You cannot ignore the humanity of other people for any reason at all.

These laws allowing the murder of unborn babies at any time in pregnancy are absolutely wrong. They are legalized murder.

But taking away the health care of millions of people so you can give the money to a tiny group of wealthy and powerful men is also legalized murder.

Dumping elderly people in nursing homes and abandoning them is a complete violation of their worth as human beings.

Putting the members of a group of powerful rapists who formed a billionaire’s rape club in charge of our government violates the humanity of every woman and girl. It is a direct attack on the humanity and unique dignity of womankind, on maternity. As such it is both anti-life, and an attack on Mary, the Mother of God.

Being pro life does not mean that you oppose abortion in all circumstances, even to save the life of the mother, but that you are free to kill anybody else you want.

Jesus’ teachings do not give room for denying the humanity of any human person.

Jesus said something that certain prominent and powerful religious leaders in America today have shoved aside and chosen to ignore.

If you have done it to the least of these, you have done it to Me.

Jesus is a very inconvenient God for “christians” who want to claim that cruelty and greed are righteousness.

The solution they have found is to shove Jesus and His Cross out of the picture and cherry pick little verses here and there and twist them into weapons they can aim at anyone they hate.

That seems like a solution. But it’s actually a highway to hell.

Jesus Christ is my God. I believe without doubt that the only way to salvation for any of us is through the Cross.

Jesus Christ said, If you have done it to the least of these, you have done it to me.

He didn’t give exceptions.

Our job isn’t to twist Scripture around to justify our sins.

Our job is to do what Jesus told us to do.

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