Some progressive lawmakers in Massachusetts have broken with their governor and admitted that aborting a child at full-term gestation is uncivilized. 

Earlier this week, Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts, a lesbian-identifying Democrat, signed a bill into law that allows for late-term abortions past 24 weeks gestation with no restrictions. The move puts the state on the opposite side of overwhelming public opinion. A March 2026 Pew Research poll found that 76% of Americans support restrictions on abortion.

“It’s election season, which means the Democratic Party is single-mindedly pursuing new ways to promote limitless abortion,” Matt Carpenter, director of Family Research Council Action at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “Just as this obsequious devotion to the abortion lobby probably cost them the presidency in 2024 — as Kamala Harris campaigned almost exclusively on expanding abortion rights, and in Congress, as lifelong Democratic voters, who’ve been okay with pro-choice politicians, chafed at the state of the new pro-abortion Democratic Party — there’s a real chance they will fall short in some key races this year because voters aren’t particularly interested in expanding late term abortion.”

The Prioritizing Patient Care Act passed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives 119-33, backed by majority Democrats. But not all the liberal members were happy. 

Jeffrey Turco, a Democrat representative from Winthrop told Fox News Digital “the new law is barbaric.” “[It] represents an extremist and dangerous position,” continued. “To be clear, it allows abortion anytime, unrestricted, and in many cases, publicly funded until the moment of birth.”

Turco added that the bill was “rushed through the legislative process in two weeks, without an opportunity for the public to weigh in,” and was “out of step with the views of the average person in Massachusetts.”

Joy Stockbauer, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand that people who are disturbed by the law have a semblance of conscience. “If you’re disturbed to hear about Massachusetts’s new unlimited abortion law, congratulations!” Stockbauer said. 

Chris Markey, a Democratic representative from Dartmouth agreed that the legalization of the bill is disheartening. 

“I am deeply disappointed in the passage of this bill. This bill creates a very slippery slope,” Markey told Fox News Digital. “I believe this law puts doctors in a very difficult ethical dilemma, as well as conflicts with long-standing criminal case law. This law, I believe, is not consistent with the beliefs of the vast majority of my constituents. While many are pro-choice, you can still be pro-choice and see this law as going beyond the norms of acceptability.”

Dennis Gallagher, a Democratic representative from Plymouth, pointed out that alternatives to abortion should be an option during a pregnancy. “At that point in a pregnancy, if the health of the mother is fine and the baby's health is fine, I just think alternatives should be encouraged for that baby. So that’s what I struggled with. But it should always be between a woman and their doctor.”

Alan Silvia, a Democratic representative from Bristol, wondered why there are stronger laws protecting non-humans. Silvia asked why lawmakers make more legislation to protect endangered animals than the unborn in statement to Fox News.

“My position has been consistent: I believe in protecting human life, including the life of the unborn,” he reiterated. “We go to extraordinary lengths as a society to protect vulnerable life, saving whales and saving strays, yet when it comes to an unborn child, that same sense of protection too often seems to disappear,” Silvia said. “As a legislator, I cannot support policies that continue to expand abortion, particularly in the later stages of pregnancy. This is not an issue I take lightly, and I understand there are deeply held views on both sides, but I will continue to stand by my convictions and vote accordingly.”

Stockbauer also underscored that abortion is always horrific, no matter what trimester a woman is in. “I felt my unborn son wiggling and kicking at as early as 20 weeks; before that, I first heard his heart beating at eight weeks — and before that, I saw the evidence of his life in the form of two pink lines on pregnancy tests, getting darker every day. Abortion ends a unique, unrepeatable human life — it should make you uncomfortable to consider that, in many places, it’s still legal.”