"Massachusetts governor says she’s a ‘proud Catholic’ after legalizing abortion up to birth"

"Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey is doubling down on her signing of a law establishing effectively unlimited abortion up to birth in the state, insisting she remains a 'proud Catholic' despite calls for her excommunication.

Under previous state law, an abortion could only be committed past 24 weeks if a physician deems it 'necessary to preserve the life of the patient'; 'necessary to preserve the patient’s physical or mental health'; 'warranted because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis'; or 'warranted because of a grave fetal diagnosis that indicates that the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside of the uterus without extraordinary medical interventions.'

Such exceptions, pro-lifers have long warned, give abortionists ample wiggle room to authorize late-term abortions under false pretenses and are never actually medically necessary or justifiable. But H. 5595 does away with even those conditions, replacing the language with 'an abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional judgment of the physician.'

It also adds language that 'No medical review process shall override the professional judgment of a treating physician and a patient or the patient’s health care proxy to provide an abortion consistent with' the new section.'

Healey, a radically pro-abortion governor who is also in a homosexual relationship, signed the law in a ceremony surrounded by women (some wearing white doctors’ coats). The law has garnered intense condemnation from pro-lifers and religious figures in Massachusetts and across the country, with even a few Democrats publicly distancing themselves from it. Healey identifies as a member of the Catholic Church, which teaches that abortion is a 'moral evil,' complicity in which 'constitutes a grave offense' carrying the 'canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.'"